United States of Arugula

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2008

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Those tangibles of the American food revolution — take-out sushi at the gas station, salads of organic baby lettuces and obscure herbs, star chefs, restaurants as Mecca — are no coincidence according to our guest David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. He believes a parade of freewheeling originals — from Julia Child to Michael Pollan — led us out of the culinary dark ages. We have the story.

The Sterns unveil a transcendental sweet potato pancake at Nashville's Pancake Pantry. Deborah Krasner talks culinary vacations and what you need to know before you hand over the credit card. Her new book The New Outdoor Kitchen: Cooking Up a Kitchen for the Way You Live and Play is due out in February.

It's the New York City burger war with Mike Colameco, our go-to guy in the Big Apple. Singer Alex Kapranos of the Franz Ferdinand band takes us on tour for a look at a rocker's road food. He's the author of Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand.

Eli Winkleman tells the story behind Challah for Hunger, a national student organization addressing humanitarian issues in a unique way. Lynne shares her Homage to California Cuisine: Garlic Bread, Green Bean and Tomato Salad and a recipe for Carrots with Apricots and Pistachios. And the phone lines will be open for your calls.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

January 13, 2007 (originally aired)
February 2, 2008 (rebroadcast)

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this
0:07.0	complicated country.
0:08.7	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
0:14.4	their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:23.6	Listen to our common nature from WNYC wherever you get podcasts.
0:32.6	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:42.3	Our program is produced by American Public Media and brought to you by Super Target.
0:46.3	Well, today it's David Camp, author of the United States of Urugula, How We Became a Gourmet Nation.
0:52.3	David believes the story here is the parade of
0:55.9	food-centric, 30 years of freewheeling individuals from Julia Child to Michael Pollan. New York
1:03.0	Food Guy Mike Colomechow reports that chefs are cutting into the McDonald's trade. They're opening
1:07.9	their own burger-only eateries. Then it's singer Alex Capranos
1:12.5	Dream, playing a rock band, tour the world, eat strange food with strange people, and write about it.
1:18.9	Alex sings with Franz Ferdinand Band, but he talks his own brand of road food with us.
1:24.3	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
1:28.6	You can reach us at 800 537-52-52. So let's get rolling with Jane and Michael Stern. They write the
1:37.0	Road Food column in Gourmet Magazine.
1:48.4	Guys, any wanderings down south lately?
1:50.4	You haven't talked about the south in a long time.
2:02.8	We've been in Nashville recently, and we ate at a restaurant that is probably the least likely kind of cuisine that we would ever look for in a southern city. It's the pancake pantry of Nashville. You know what I think of Nashville? I think of fried chicken. I think of
2:06.4	country ham. I think of maybe barbecue. Well, let me tell you, I now think of pancakes,
2:12.0	because this pancake pantry, which has been there for decades, is one of the great pancake
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