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Lynne Rossetto Kasper answers listeners' kitchen questions. Excerpted from each week's edition of The Splendid Table.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday August 30, 2008
Fri, Aug 29, 2008
We're talking to Benjamin Wallace author of The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine. Jane and Michael Stern are at Round Rock Donuts in Round Rock, TX, and we get the final word on knife care from Chad Ward, author of An Edge in the Kitchen.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday August 23, 2008
Fri, Aug 22, 2008
This week we meet up with Britain's charming Nigella Lawson, author of Nigella Express: 130 Recipes for Good Food, Fast. Jane and Michael Stern are in Kansas City, MO at LC's BBQ, and wine wit Joshua Wesson introduces us to his pick in chillable reds.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday August 16, 2008
Fri, Aug 15, 2008
This week we're meeting one of the pioneers in America's artisan cheese movement, our very own Steve Jenkins author of The Food Life: Inside the World of Food with the Grocer Extraordinaire at Fairway Market. Jane and Michael Stern are at Halibut in Portland, OR and we look at the Southern way with picnics, with Jean Anderson author of A Love Affair with Southern Cooking: Recipes and Recollections.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday August 9, 2008
Fri, Aug 08, 2008
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.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday August 2, 2008
Fri, Aug 01, 2008
We're looking at the unusual and humble origins of sushi with Trevor Corson, author of The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket, Jane and Michael Stern are at Johnson's Corner Truckstop and Cafe in Loveland, CO and legendary chef Jacque Pepin reminisces on the French kitchen of his childhood. His latest book is Chez Jacques.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday July 26, 2008
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
This week we're meeting journalist Adam Leith Gollner, author of The Fruit Hunters, A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession. Jane and Michael Stern are at Louis Mueller's BBQ in Taylor TX, and wine wit Joshua Wesson recommends cool wines for hot days.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday July 19, 2008
Fri, Jul 18, 2008
This week's show could be called the cookbook lover's version of The Antiques Road Show. Our guide is Jose Andres, award-winning chef and host of PBS's Made in Spain. He'll explain why his collection of antique cookbooks is so essential to his work. It's skirted cheeseburgers at the Squeeze Inn in Sacramento for Jane and Michael Stern. Russian food authority Anya Von Bremzen joins us for a look at the sizzling hot Moscow food scene.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday July 12, 2008
Fri, Jul 11, 2008
This week it's the seeds and bark that changed the planet. We're talking spices, the stuff of wonderment and avarice in the medieval world with Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. It's a St. Augustine, Florida special for Jane and Michael Stern at Saltwater Cowboy's. Celebrity chef Mario Batali reveals the summertime reads in his beach bag. His new book is Italian Grill. Tea purist Bill Waddington, proprietor of St. Paul's TeaSource, has summer in a glass -- iced teas for the lazy at heart, and culinary improv artist Sally Schneider has a brief on the wallflower of the farm stand -- the beet.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday July 5, 2008
Fri, Jul 4, 2008
This week we talk to journalist Dave Plotnikoff about his hike from the Mexican border to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail and the food that ended up being the touch point of the trip. He is the author of "Hungry Man" from the July 2007 issue of Saveur Magazine. Jane and Michael Stern are eating planked whitefish and ice cream "Thunderclouds" at Juilleret's in Harbor Springs, MI, and Russ Parsons, author of How to Pick a Peach explains the rules about produce and the refrigerator.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday June 28, 2008
Fri, Jun 27, 2008
To arm us for 4th of July celebrations, we've enlisted the services of Mario Batali and his newest book, The Italian Grill. Jane and Michael Stern are eating al fresco at Champlin's Seafood Deck in Naragansett, RI and Harold McGee author of the seminal On Food and Cooking explains the one thing every cook needs to know about cooking red meat.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday June 21, 2008
Fri, Jun 20, 2008
Neal Rosenthal, author of Reflections of a Wine Merchant joins us with his tale of life in the wine business. Jane and Michael Stern are at Joe Roger's Chili Parlour in Springfield, IL and Gourmet Magazine's John Willoughby gives us a primer in smoke roasting.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday June 14, 2008
Fri, Jun 13, 2008
This week we have the story of Mother Noella Marcellino who found her calling in a Benedictine abbey and the cheese caves of France. The Stern's are at Clanton's in Vinita, OK eating chicken fried steak. Wine wit Josh Wesson introduces us to the delicious and overlooked sparkling red wines of summer.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday June 7, 2008
Fri, Jun 06, 2008
We've a look at entertaining through the eyes of one of world's most festive and stylish hosts, fashion designer and cultural iconoclast Issac Mizrahi. Jane and Michael Stern may have found the best coffee in Seattle at Crema, and Food and Wine Magazine's Lettie Teague tells us about the latest restaurant trend, house wines.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday May 31, 2008
Fri, May 30, 2008
This week we're looking at the wine cork controversy with journalist George Tabor, author of To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science and the Bottle for the Wine Bottle. Jane and Michael Stern are taking us to upstate NY to raise our hot dog consciousness at Ted's in Tonawanda, NY, and the Wine Spectator's Matt Kramer introduces us to his favorite white wine, reisling.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday May 24, 2008
Fri, May 23, 2008
All those people talking about a wine's terroir, meaning the place the grapes come from. Can we really taste it? We get the scientific last word from Harold McGee author of the seminal On Food and Cooking. Jane and Michael Stern are at Woodyard Bar-B-Que in Kansas City, KS, and novelist Nicole Mones tells us about the time in Chinese culinary history which she used as a framework for her latest novel, The Last Chinese Chef.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday May 17, 2008
Fri, May 16, 2008
Today we are learning how to build a curry with award-winning teacher Raghavan Iyer author of 660 Curries. Jane and Michael Stern have found pecan pie worth the trip at the Texas Pie Company in Kyle, TX. Wine wit Joshua Wesson brings us wines for the picnic basket and we look the misunderstandings behind MSG with The New York Times' Julia Moskin.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday May 10, 2008
Fri, May 09, 2008
We're looking at the education of a wine rookie with Lettie Teague and her student, movie critic Peter Travers. Lettie is the author of Educating Peter. Jane and Michael Stern are in the Mississippi Delta at Rhoda's Famous Hot Tamales and we look at the advent of a new dining trend, one-pot meals served in private homes.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday May 3, 2008
Fri, May 02, 2008
We are looking at the foods of the Philippine's this week with Amy Besa, author of Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near. Jane and Michael Stern are at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville, TN and Sally Schneider author of the award-winning The Improvisational Cook gives us a cooking lesson for spring.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday April 26, 2008
Fri, Apr 25, 2008
This week we're taking you on a road trip, specifically a wine trip to the Galicia region of Spain. It was one week, one bus, four wine geeks and The Splendid Table. Galicia and it's neighboring area of Bierzo are up and comers in the wine world, and this trip sure explained why.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday April 19, 2008
Fri, Apr 18, 2008
This week we've a love letter to the island of Oahu. Honolulu may be the most overlooked food city in the world where we'll meet some of the people shaping that unique island cuisine.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday April 12, 2008
Fri, Apr 11, 2008
It's part 2 of our special record in Italy. Lynne takes us to Emilia-Romagna. This week we begin the tour in Ferrara where the renaissance still rules, and take an unusual look at Emilia-Romagna's crown jewel. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday April 5, 2008
Fri, Apr 04, 2008
This week we're re-visiting our show recorded in Lynne's beloved Emilia-Romagna. This is the region of Italy that Italians consider their culinary jewel, the land of prosciutto and Parmigiano-Reggiano.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday March 29, 2008
Fri, Mar 28, 2008
This week author John Hailman looks Thomas Jefferson through a unique lens, as a man whose lifelong campaign was to steer the American public away from hard liquor and into the vineyard. He is the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine. Jane and Michael Stern are eating classic San Francisco fare at Sam's Grill, and our opinionated cheese monger Steve Jenkins teaches us how to get out of our cheese rut!
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The Splendid Table for Saturday March 22, 2008
Tue, Mar 25, 2008
We are looking at how the miraculous omega-3 fatty acids are disappearing from our Western diet with Susan Allport, author of The Queen of Fats. Jane and Michael Stern are at Skylight Inn BBQ in Ayden, NC and Russ Parsons, author of How to Pick a Peach turns his expertise to spring's fresh peas and fava beans.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday March 15, 2008
Fri, Mar 14, 2008
This week we're looking a the surprising political power of the banana with Dan Koeppel author of Banana: the Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. Jane and Michael Stern are eating first rate Mexican food in the sugar beet belt at Rosita's in Scottsbluff, NE, and Sally Schneider author of The Improvisational Cook introduces us to the savory side of lemons.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday March 8, 2008
Fri, Mar 07, 2008
Award-winning actress and author Madhur Jaffrey joins us with tales from her childhood, both culinary and political in nature. Her latest book is her memoir Climbing the Mango Trees. Jane and Michael Stern are eating Michigan's at McSweeney's in Plattsburgh, NY, and chef Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune in New York City gives us an insiders glimpse of the sometimes brutal life of a restaurant kitchen. She is the author of the essay It's All Fun and Games Until ... , from the collection, How I Learned to Cook.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday March 1, 2008
Fri, Feb 29, 2008
This week we're looking at the flavors of the golden age of Arab cuisine with Charles Perry author of Medevial Cuisine of the Islamic World, and Jane and Michael Stern are breakfasting at Kitchen Little in Mystic Connecticut.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday February 23, 2008
Fri, Feb 22, 2008
We are looking at the history of the kitchen in America this week with Steven Gdula author of The Warmest Room in the House and Jane and Michael Stern are eating eggnog waffles and espresso twinkies at Bette's Oceanview Diner in Berkeley, CA.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday February 16, 2008
Fri, Feb 15, 2008
We're taking you behind the scenes of the legendary restaurant, Per Se in NYC. Our guide, a waitress. Phoebe Damrosch is the author of Service Included, Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter. Jane and Michael Stern are at the Grove Cafe in Ames, IA and cheesemonger Steve Jenkins introduces us to the cheeses of the Pyrenees.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday February 9, 2008
Fri, Feb 08, 2008
This week we meet one of the women who introduced authentic Chinese food to America. Cecilia Chiang is the author of The Seventh Daughter, My Culinary Journey from Beijing to San Francisco. Jane and Michael Stern are noshing in Tuscon, AZ at Feigs Kosher Foods and Dorrie Greenspan teaches us to taste chocolate just in time for your Valentine.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday February 2, 2008
Fri, Feb 1, 2008
This week we're looking at how we became a gourmet nation with David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula. Jane and Michael Stern are at the legendary Pancake Pantry in Nashville, TN, and Deborah Krasner opens up the world of culinary travel.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday January 26, 2008
Fri, Jan 25, 2008
This week we are taking an in-depth look at one of the great culinary arts, stock making with Michael Ruhlman, author of The Elements of Cooking, Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen. Jane and Michael Stern are in Cambridge, MA at the All Star Sandwich Bar, and Ken Albala author of Beans, A History brings us a cultural and historical look.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday January 19, 2008
Fri, Jan 18, 2008
We are looking at the vegan revolution this week with Isa Chandra Moskowitz author of Veganomicon. Jane and Michael Stern are at the Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen in Chapel Hill, NC, and David Rosengarten of The Rosengarten Report introduces us to the food of Hyderabad, India.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday January 12, 2008
Fri, Jan 11, 2008
Jennifer Ackerman author of Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream, A Day in the Life of Your Body joins us with a scientific take on how our bodies use food and drink. Jane and Michael Stern are at Hocutt's BBQ in Moundsville, NC, and Sally Schneider author of The Improvisational Cook brings us her weeknight savior, the souffle.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday January 5, 2008
Fri, Jan 04, 2008
Just in time for the post-holiday dieting season, we look at the subliminal psychology of eating with Brian Wansink author of Mindless Eating, Why We Eat More Than We Think. Jane and Michael Stern are at Mike's Chili Parlor in Seattle, WA, and Chris Kimball, of Cook's Illustrated Magazine challenges Lynne to another round of Stump the Cook.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday December 29, 2007
Fri, Dec 28, 2007
This week irrepressible foodie Nora Ephron joins us with observations on life and America's food scene. She is author of the best-selling I Feel Bad About My Neck. Jane and Michael Stern are eating all things kosher at Chutzpah in Fairfax, Virginia, and pleasure activist Fred Plotkin takes us on a road trip to Vienna.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday December 22, 2007
Fri, Dec 21, 2007
Britain's lusty cook Nigella Lawson explains how we can all have a rational holiday. Her new book is Nigella Express. Jane and Michael Stern have found the mother of all buffets at Quinet's Court in New Martinsville, WV, and cheesemonger Steve Jenkins gives us a primer on the king of blue-veined cheese -- rocquefort.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday December 15, 2007
Fri, Dec 14, 2007
Padma Lakshmi host of Bravo's Top Chef and author of Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet joins us with her unique international take in the kitchen, the Stern's are at Northern Waters Smokehaus in Duluth, MN and we learn to make frist-rate bread with the authors of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday December 8, 2007
Fri, Dec 07, 2007
This week we meet Judith Jones the editor who introduced Julia Child to the world. Her new biography is The Tenth Muse, My Life in Food. Jane and Michael Stern are eating drippy burgers and southern-style vegetables at Lupie's Cafe in Charlotte, NC, and our gadget obsessed Dorie Greenspan brings us her picks of the best in holiday gifts for the cook.
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The Splendid Table for Saturday December 1, 2007
Fri, Nov 30, 2007
This week we're joined by reknown cheese expert Laura Werlin author of Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials; an Insiders Guide to Buying and Serving Cheese. New York City food authority Mike Colameco introduces us some of New York great tiny hole-in-the walls, and British chef Fergus Henderson extols the beauty of trotters. He's the author of Beyond Nose to Tail.
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The Splendid Table Turkey Confidential, 2007
Mon, Nov 26, 2007
Turkey Confidential - 2 hours of live culinary triage on the day you need it most - Thanksgiving. This is the day even non-cooks get in the kitchen. We'll be here bright and early with open lines for your questions - anything goes! Join us with guests Mario Batali, Christopher Kimball, Amy Sedaris and more!
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The Splendid Table for Saturday November 24, 2007
Fri, Nov 23, 2007
We are looking at the home food of the Spice Islands with James Oseland author of Cradle of Flavor, Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Jane and Michael Stern are at Price's Chicken Coop in Charlotte, NC, and we get ready for baking season with master baker and Splendid Table regular Dorie Greenspan author of the must-have cookbook, Baking, From My Home to Yours.
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