Wine Style
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2007
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week Mary Ewing-Mulligan puts wine where she thinks it belongs: it's all about taste. Mary claims quality is second to flavor, geography is more important than the grape, and a number on the bottle can help us match a wine to a menu. Mary's new book is Wine Style: Earthy Whites to Powerful Reds: Using Your Senses to Explore and Enjoy Wine.
The Sterns have found the ultimate babka and bagels of their dreams in Montreal. Who knew? Vegetable gardening expert Jack Staub shares new ideas for gardeners and mail order seed sources. How about sweet little pocket melons, super lush tomatoes and day-glo lettuce for your garden this year? Jack is the author of 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden.
Julie Hauserman fills us in on the Florida tomato fight that's all about appearance over flavor. Our very popular refrigerator game, Stump the Cook, is back with Lynne and Stump Master Christopher Kimball! We return to the MIT Media Lab for dinner plates you toss when you're finished eating ... and make new ones whenever you want.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- March 4, 2006 (originally aired)
- February 24, 2007 (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. |
| 0:31.6 | It's Lynn Rosetta Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:34.3 | Music the splendid table. |
| 0:48.3 | Today, Master of Wine, Mary Ewing Mulligan puts wine where she thinks it belongs. |
| 0:50.5 | It's all about taste. |
| 0:56.6 | She says quality is second to flavor and geography is more important than the grape. |
| 1:03.4 | Well, Mary's book is wine style. The Stearns have found the classic Montreal bagel. Who knew? |
| 1:10.0 | Sweet little pocketmelons, super lush tomatoes, and a day glow lettuce. It's new ideas for gardeners from gardening expert Jack Stob. |
| 1:12.8 | Then it's the Ugly Ripes versus the Florida tomato committee's Little Miss Americas. |
| 1:18.2 | And we've got a round of Stump the Cook with guest stump master Christopher Kimball. |
| 1:23.1 | All this and your calls coming up on the splendid table. |
| 1:27.3 | But first, this. |
| 1:32.7 | Peel me a grape, crush me some ice. |
| 1:43.6 | Skin me a peach, save the fuzz for my pillow |
| 1:47.9 | talk to me nice |
| 1:50.6 | talk to me nice |
| 1:53.3 | you've got to wind me |
| 1:56.2 | and dine me |
| 1:59.3 | don't try to fool me |
| 2:01.9 | be to me |
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