Who Is Responsible for Protecting Our Food?

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

American Public Media

Food, Arts

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2008

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking to distinguished nutritionist and food activist Marion Nestle about who should really be responsible for our food supply. She is the author of What To Eat. The Stern's are at Standard Baking on the Portland, ME waterfront and Sally Schneider author of the award-winning The Improvisational Cook gives us a new view of the kitchen staple, the egg.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

June 9, 2007 (originally aired)
August 9, 2008 (rebroadcast)

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0:31.4	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Anna Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:38.7	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories,
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1:02.4	Hi, it's Lynn Rosetta, Casper, and you're listening to The Splendid Table,
1:10.2	the show for people who love to eat. Our program was produced by American Public Media and brought to you by
1:16.6	room and board, handcrafted furniture for your home at room and board.com. Today, it's the thorny question
1:24.6	of who should be the watchdogs of America's health.
1:28.9	It's a timely issue, so we talk with nutritionist, Dr. Marion Nessel.
1:33.9	Marion's looked at this issue in her three books on the State of America's food, safe food, food politics, and what to eat.
1:41.1	On the hedonistic side, that slick improviser Sally Schneider has her lazy
1:46.7	dog suppers. A recent New York transplant, Catherine Lanford, navigates a trip to the green
1:52.9	market as an initiation into the yin-yang of New York life. Then we have the other side of
2:00.3	champagne, the side we don't hear about, how it was shaped by the
2:04.2	merry widows of Moose.
2:06.0	And as always, in the second half of the show, we're going to be opening the lines for your calls.
2:10.4	You can get to us at 800, 537, 5252.
2:15.1	So let's get the show rolling with Jane and Michael Stern.
2:18.5	They write the road food column in Gourmet magazine.
2:28.0	Sometimes Lynn, Michael and I dream of moving to another part of the country,
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