Zinfandel
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2005
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We're taking a look at Zinfandel, the mystery grape swathed in controversy, its origins lost in the mists of time. Wine historian Charles Sullivan, author of Zinfandel: A History of a Grape and Its Wine, joins us to unravel its questionable past.
The Sterns have found great barbecue behind bulletproof glass at Leon's Bar-B-Que in Chicago. Dorie Greenspan gets us ready for the return of cool weather with the best in bread baking gear. Our go-to guy in New York reveals one of his secrets for great cheap eats: the city's oldest Indian neighborhood called Curry Hill.
Lynne shares her recipe for Tamarind-Glazed Pork Tenderloin Sauté, and Alice Waters, the high priestess of California cuisine and organics, reports on the latest in school lunches from Berkeley's Edible Schoolyard.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- September 11, 2004 (originally aired)
- September 10, 2005 (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. |
| 0:32.1 | Set of Casper with the splendid table. |
| 0:47.8 | Today it's the stealth grape, the mysterious Zinfandel. |
| 0:50.3 | You haven't heard of the Zinfandel mysteries? |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome to the inside edition of the wine world. But never fear, historian Charles Sullivan |
| 0:56.2 | has unraveled Zimfindel's controversial past. Olive Stearns have gone behind the bulletproof glass |
| 1:02.9 | for great barbecue at Leon's in Chicago. We have the sexiest new bread gear from baking expert |
| 1:08.7 | Dory Greenspan. New York food guy Mike Colomecco |
| 1:11.9 | tours us into the city's oldest Indian neighborhood, Curry Hill, and the legendary Alice |
| 1:17.6 | Waters is brewing another revolution in public schools. All this and your calls coming up |
| 1:23.6 | on the splendid table. But first this. |
| 1:29.3 | Peel me a grape, |
| 1:35.3 | crush me some ice. |
| 1:39.3 | Skin me a peach. |
| 1:44.5 | Save the fuzz for my pillow. |
| 1:48.1 | Talk to me nice. |
| 1:50.6 | Talk to me nice. |
| 1:52.5 | You've got to wind me and dine me. |
| 1:59.2 | Don't try to fool me |
| 2:01.0 | Be to me |
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