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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week we're cooking and eating the vegan way with our guest Isa Chandra Moskowitz, author of Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook. It's less about tofu and more about dynamite vegetables and inventive cooking. Her recipe for Asparagus Quiche with Tomatoes and Tarragon is a delicious introduction.

For Jane and Michael Stern it's that great southern triumvirate—biscuits, ham and sweet tea—at the Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. David Rosengarten takes us to Hyderabad, the Indian city where the rich and regal food of the north meets up with the zing and zap of the cuisines of the south.

Aaron Woolf, director of King Corn, tells the back story behind the new feature documentary about two guys from Boston, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. We'll meet up with Laura Solorio, the first of the 15 "locavores" to participate in our year-long project called Locavore Nation. James Villas, the southern gentleman of the food world, stops by to talk one of those guilty pleasure foods—bacon—and leaves us his recipe for Bacon and Peanut Butter Chocolate Truffles from his new book The Bacon Cookbook.

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January 19, 2008

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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.
0:24.5	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:36.2	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
0:42.6	Our program is produced by American Public Media and supported by Room and Board,
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0:52.4	Well, today we talk cooking and eating the vegan way, and it's not your
0:56.4	mother's vegan cooking. Our guest is Issa Chandra Moskowitz, the award-winning author and diva of
1:03.4	Public Access TV's Post Punk Kitchen. David Rosengarten has the one city in India not to miss, the place where the rich and regal food of the north meets up with the zing and the zap of the foods of the south.
1:19.1	We talk King Corn, the new film, about two unsuspecting guys who decide to raise an acre of corn.
1:25.9	The reason, well, they want to see where it takes them.
1:28.9	Then it's our own agricultural experiment.
1:31.7	Locavore Nation, 15 volunteers trying to eat local, sustainable, and organic for a year.
1:39.0	Today we talk with our first locovore.
1:41.7	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening
1:44.5	the lines for your calls. The number is 800, 537, 5252. So let's roll with Jane and Michael Stern.
1:53.3	They write the Road Food column in Gourmet Magazine.
2:05.7	Jane, Michael, where's the latest trip in?
2:19.5	We've been going to North Carolina a lot recently, and one of the things that occurred to us when we went to a place called the Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen is that two things North Carolinians do really well are make biscuits and fried chicken. And at the Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen, you can get both in one
2:25.7	item, which is a chicken biscuit, a patty of white meat fried chicken inside of a really good
2:33.7	fluffy buttermilk biscuit.
2:35.4	It is heaven.
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