Where Our Food Comes From

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, Lynne talks with Ethnobiologist, conservationist and farmer Gary Nabhan about the story of a profound visionary who set out to end famine, and the price he paid. Gary's latest book is Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine. James Villas, the southern gentleman of the food world, stops by to talk about his new book, Pig: King of the Southern Table, Ian Cheney talks about truck farming, the Sterns tell us about Sacramento's Squeeze Inn, and Lynne answers your kitchen questions.

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May 29, 2010

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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.
0:32.8	It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table.
0:44.7	Thank you. It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. With all the media attention given over to food, there's a group of experts that we have
0:49.8	rarely heard from.
0:51.3	I kind of think of them as the defenders, and two of them are with us today.
0:55.4	Food writer James Villas is a legendary defender of southern tradition. Ethnobotanist Gary
1:01.2	Nabhan is a champion of biodiversity. What's changed for all of us is we want to know a lot more
1:08.5	about food, not only about what to cook, but about how to think about it.
1:13.5	Time for those people who've given their lives up to learning and understanding to step up to the plate.
1:19.6	So stick around for two of them and much more, this hour on the splendid table. It's It's Lendid Table.
1:36.3	It's Lynn Rosetta-Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table, the show for people who love to eat.
1:42.9	Our program is produced by American public media
1:45.5	and supported by Just Bear Chicken,
1:48.7	all natural with a simple commitment to natural food
1:51.6	and respect for both animals and planet.
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1:57.4	You can learn more at justbearchicken.com.
2:00.5	Thank you. minimal. You can learn more at just bearchicken.com.
2:23.0	Do you remember the movie King Corn, two city guys, Ian Cheney and Kurt Ellis, set out to grow an acre of corn in Iowa?
2:28.0	It's their hands-on approach to learning about farming and corn in today's economy.
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