Two Valleys

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2004

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week it's class warfare in the California wine country. We'll take a look at growth and development versus local culture as new money from the Silicon Valley threatens what's left of the rural lifestyle in the Napa and Sonoma valleys. Our guest is Alan Deutschman, author of A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma.

Avoiding the fray, Jane and Michael Stern are in South Carolina eating Jesus crabs and flounder atFishnet Seafood on Johns Island.

Sally Schneider, author of A New Way to Cook, has been fiddling with fresh soybeans. Her recipe for Succotash is a delicious result. Then Jill Gusman, co-author of Vegetables from the Sea, introduces us to the unfamiliar realm of sea greens. Her recipe for Sea Vegetable Caesar Salad is a good way to start experimenting with veggies from the deep.

We have the scoop on the luscious argan oil from Morocco, and, as always, Lynne takes your calls.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

August 9, 2003 (originally aired)
August 14, 2004 (rebroadcast)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:08.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:31.5	It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.
0:48.9	Today it's class warfare in the California wine country, Napa and Sonoma, two very different places, yet both mirror the new homogenizing of rural America.
0:54.0	Our guest is Alan Deutscheman, author of A Tale of Two Valleys,
0:57.0	Wine, Wealth, and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma.
1:01.0	Away from the fray are the Stearns.
1:03.0	They're eating Jesus crab and flounder on the South Carolina coast.
1:07.0	Cracker Jack Cooks Sally Schneider transports fresh soybeans across the pond.
1:12.4	Then it's a new world of veggies.
1:14.3	Literally, we're talking greens from the ocean deep.
1:17.5	And we have the backstory of Morocco's rare and luscious argon oil.
1:22.4	All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table.
1:27.3	But first, this.
1:29.3	Peel me a grape, crush me some ice.
1:42.3	Skin me a peach
1:44.4	Save the fuzz for my pillow
1:47.2	Talk to me nice
1:49.9	Talk to me nice
1:52.6	You've got to wind me
1:54.8	And dine me
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