The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
If you love to eat, cook and travel, The Splendid Table is your weekly go-to source. Our public radio program has been connecting people through the common language of food for over three decades. Hosted by award-winning food journalist Francis Lam, each week we bring you fresh voices and surprising conversations at the intersection of cooking, people and culture. We cover all things food – from recipes and restaurants to history and science, farmer’s markets and of course, the Thanksgiving feast. Our wide-ranging, freewheeling guest list includes both world-class and rookie chefs, bestselling authors, scientists, poets, musicians, and even an astronaut in orbit!
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Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, The Weeknight Kitchen, to receive practical, delicious weeknight-ready recipes. Once a month, we also share a sweet treat or baking recipe. Sign up at Splendidtable.org/newsletter
Produced by American Public Media. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network
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Jun 26, 2015 • 51min
Sedaris Family Dinners
David Sedaris joins us this week with his stories about family dinners. His latest book is Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls. We look at an alternative and ancient way to bake -- on the grill -- with Paula Marcoux, author of Cooking with Fire, and learn the art of pairing beer with cheese from Steve Jones, owner of Cheese Bar in Portland, Oregon.Broadcast dates for this episode:June 27, 2014 (originally aired)June 26, 2015 (rebroadcast)
Jun 12, 2015 • 51min
Charred and Scruffed
We learn some unconventional grilling techniques this week from Adam Perry Lang, author of Charred and Scruffed. Travel + Leisure magazine's Peter Jon Lindberg reports on the affordable food scene in Hawaii, and food scientist Harold McGee brings us some surprising news about the best way to thaw frozen meat.Broadcast dates for this episode:June 9, 2012 (originally aired)June 1, 2013 (rebroadcast)June 12, 2015 (rebroadcast)
May 29, 2015 • 51min
Quinoa Quarrel
This week we ask the question, “Who owns the world’s superfoods?” It’s the battle over quinoa with journalist Lisa Hamilton, we hear the story of wine entrepreneur Jess Jackson of Kendall-Jackson Vineyard Estates from the author of A Man and His Mountain and the duo from the award-winning Perennial Plate takes us to Argentina for the tradition of mate.Broadcast dates for this episode:June 6, 2014 (originally aired)May 29, 2015 (rebroadcast)
May 15, 2015 • 51min
Fried and True
We are talking about fried chicken this week with Lee Brian Schrager and Adeena Sussman, authors of Fried & True: More than 50 Recipes for America’s Best Fried Chicken and Sides, Food & Wine Magazine’s Ray Isle explores a re-imagined wine bottle and we look at rice through a Persian cook’s eyes with Louisa Shafia, author of The New Persian Kitchen.Broadcast dates for this episode:May 23, 2014 (originally aired)May 15, 2015 (rebroadcast)
May 1, 2015 • 51min
Mindfulness
We are looking at mindfulness in the kitchen this week with Dan Harris, best-selling author of 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge and Found Self-Help that Actually Works -- A True Story. We talk to the Martha Stewart of Australia, Donna Hay, chef Ronna Welsh tells us how to reduce waste in the kitchen, and the Sterns fill us in on Arkansas fried pies.Broadcast dates for this episode:May 9, 2014 (originally aired)May 1, 2015 (rebroadcast)
Apr 17, 2015 • 51min
True Chef
It's a look at the real world of the professional kitchen with chef April Bloomfield of New York City's The Spotted Pig and The Breslin, The Perennial Plate heads to South Africa to learn about biodynamic wines, and historian Frederick Douglass Opie takes us on a musical journey through the South's chitlin' circuit.Broadcast dates for this episode:April 25, 2014 (originally aired)April 17, 2015 (rebroadcast)
Apr 3, 2015 • 51min
Ramen Slurp
This week it’s a look at real ramen with Ivan Orkin, author of Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession and Recipes from Tokyo’s Most Unlikely Noodle Joint, the Sterns are in North Garden, Va., at Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie, we talk to Gustavo Arellano of the syndicated Ask a Mexican! column about the latest in American-Mex cuisine, and David Rosengarten of davidrosengarten.com is just back from Sicily and brings us a primer in capers.Broadcast dates for this episode:April 4, 2014 (originally aired)April 3, 2015 (rebroadcast)
Mar 20, 2015 • 51min
Tasting in the Dark
We’re looking at the world of wine tasting with an unusual guide, Hoby Wedler, the blind host of the Tasting in the Dark seminars at Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Chef Daniel Patterson of San Francisco’s famed Coi talks about the philosophy behind the vegetable emphasis on his menu, and could cactus be the next kale? We check in with Modern Farmer’s Sam Brasch.Broadcast dates for this episode:March 21, 2014 (originally aired)March 20, 2015 (rebroadcast)
Mar 6, 2015 • 51min
Shucked
This week we play another round of Stump the Cook with Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi. We meet Erin Byers Murray, author of the memoir Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm, and we look at low-alcohol wines with Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, author of Drink This: Wine Made Simple.Broadcast dates for this episode:February 18, 2012 (originally aired)February 16, 2013 (rebroadcast)March 6, 2015 (rebroadcast)
Feb 20, 2015 • 51min
Chickenization
Investigative journalist Christopher Leonard takes us inside the meat industry with his book The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, wine expert Joshua Wesson brings us his picks of wines to pair with charcuterie, and we look at the food from Macau with the duo behind Chicago’s Fat Rice.Broadcast dates for this episode:February 21, 2014 (originally aired)February 20, 2015 (rebroadcast)
