Wine and Cheetos
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week we dig into chef Marcus Samuelsson’s ethnic pantry. His latest book is Marcus Off Duty: The Recipes I Cook at Home. We look at the decline of traditional French cheese in France, we match junk food with wine for a lesson in wine pairing with Anthony Giglio and we talk to the duo who documented Cuban home cooking in their new book, The Cuban Table.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- December 5, 2014 (originally aired)
- December 11, 2015 (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 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. |
| 0:32.5 | It's the Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Lynne Rosetta Casper. |
| 0:38.6 | This week, we're taking a democratic approach to wine, using junk food to show how to pair |
| 0:44.2 | wine with food. |
| 0:46.0 | Take spicy Doritos, for instance. |
| 0:48.4 | This opens the door for sweet wines, and people are afraid to like sweet wines or they |
| 0:52.5 | think that it's, you know, de class A. |
| 0:54.7 | I say you have to have sweet to beat the heat. Okay. And that's a rule of thumb in all wine pairing from spicy Doritos, straight through to spicy curries, spicy sashyuan, you name it. And probably I'd go red because we're talking about, you know, cheese in quotation marks, right, if in Doritos, I would pair it with maybe a nice Lambrusco |
| 1:12.6 | or even a briquetto daquy from Piedmont. |
| 1:15.9 | That's wine writer Anthony Gielo, |
| 1:18.2 | and lots more is coming your way, |
| 1:20.3 | including Marcus Samuelson's ethnic pantry, |
| 1:23.9 | this hour on the splendid table. |
| 1:34.9 | Music This hour on The Splend Table. This is The Splendid Table from APM, American Public Media, |
| 1:39.8 | the show for people who love to eat. |
| 1:42.9 | I'm Lynne Rossetta, Casper. |
| 1:48.5 | How does an ace, chef, and philanthropist begin? Well, how about at a hot dog stand in Sweden? |
| 1:55.9 | That was Marcus Samuelson's first food job. An Ethiopian child, orphaned at three, he was adopted by a |
| 2:02.8 | Swedish family. Eventually, he came to America, where he became the youngest chef to earn three |
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