The Splendid Table is a one-hour culinary, culture, and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone. Each week, The Splendid Table tours new culinary territory, from the vineyards of Provence to the city-street diners of Philadelphia. While doing so, host Lynne Rossetto Kasper uncovers hidden delights, and offers her modern take on getting food to the "splendid table" with cooking tips, recipes, and her own personal advice.
The Splendid Table is a one-hour culinary, culture, and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone. Each week, The Splendid Table tours new culinary territory, from the vineyards of Provence to the city-street diners of Philadelphia. While doing so, host Lynne Rossetto Kasper uncovers hidden delights, and offers her modern take on getting food to the "splendid table" with cooking tips, recipes, and her own personal advice.
The Splendid Table, Pairing Food and Wine, August 12, 2011
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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Evan Goldstein author of Daring Pairings joins us with a fresh take on pairing food and wine, we learn a new cooking technique for getting the most from summer vegetables with Martha Rose Shulman author of The Very Best of Recipes for Health, and Mario Batali stops by with his take on Italian gelato.
This week on The Splendid Table, renowned architect Sarah Susanka, whose latest book is Not So Big Solutions for Your Home, believes houses should be designed for how we really live, not how we think we should live. She joins us this week with practical ideas for putting this philosophy to work in our kitchens. Also, Jane and Michael Stern are "pig pickin" at Sweatman's BBQ in Holly Hill, South Carolina.
The Splendid Table, Andy Ricker, James Prosek, David Thompson, and Francis Lam, February 10, 2012
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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It's a look at the mysterious eel with James Prosek author of Eels, An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Saragasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish. We look at the food life of Thailand with David Thompson author of Thai Street Food and Gilt Taste's Francis Lam teaches us to make Ginger Milk Pudding.
The Splendid Table, The Specialty Coffee Movement, November 12, 2010
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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We take a look at the specialty coffee movement with Michaele Weissman author of God in a Cup. Britain's Diana Henry, author of Food from Plenty: Good Food Made from the Plentiful, the Seasonal and the Leftover with Over 300 Recipes, None of Them Extravagant joins us with her take on where to look for flavor inspiration. And Andy Crouch, author of Great American Craft Beer: A Guide to the Nation's Finest Beers and Breweries introduces us to "session beer."
The Splendid Table, Sustainable Foods, July 02, 2010
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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This week we're talking to food activist Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food about the intersection between sustainable foods, and our real life pocketbooks. Jane and Michael Stern have been researching the green chile cheeseburger in New Mexico and we look at the origins of the American potato chip with Dirk Burhans author of Crunch, A History of the Great American Potato Chip.
The Splendid Table, Nigella Lawson, December 17, 2010
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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This week Nigella Lawson is stopping by with her new book, Nigella Kitchen, Recipes From the Heart of Home. Food & Wine Magazine's Anthony Giglio introduces us to the bubbly wines of Italy. Sally Schneider, creator of The Improvisational Cook is back with her annual list of homemade food gifts and the Stern's are at Nick Tahou Hots in Rochester NY.
This week The Splendid Table looks at where Buddhism and the restaurant kitchen meet, with Annie Somerville, chef of the award-winning vegetarian restaurant Greens in San Francisco. Annie has almost single-handedly changed the face of vegetarian food in this country. Jane and Michael Stern have followed their noses to Otto's, a smokehouse in Portland, Oregon. The Splendid Table gadget tester Dorie Greenspan tells us how to use chips, chunks, and planks to get smokehouse flavor from our grills.
The Splendid Table, Jacques Pepin, September 30, 2011
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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We are joined this week by the legendary Jacques Pepin and his new book, Essential Pepin, More that 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food. Jane and Michael Stern are taking a look at what happens when great road food restaurants multiply.
This week it's a conversation with the author of one of Lynne's favorite books of 2005, Michael Ruhlman, author of Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing. Then, Jane and Michael Stern are at Becky's Diner in Portland, ME, the best place to be if you need a little family away from home this holiday season; wine wit Joshua Wesson says wine is the perfect antidote for fruitcake and makes some suggestions; Dorrie Greenspan, author of Paris Sweets.
The Splendid Table, The Billionaire's Vinegar, August 29, 2008
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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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.
The Splendid Table, Country Cooking of Ireland, January 29, 2010
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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We're looking at the country cooking of Ireland with award-winning writer Colman Andrews. And this week, the Sterns are introducing us to the cousin of the Po'Boy in New Orleans.
The Splendid Table, How to Build a Curry, April 17, 2009
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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Today we're 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, Texas; wine wit Joshua Wesson brings us wines for the picnic basket; and we look at the misunderstandings behind MSG with The New York Time's Julia Moskin.
We're meeting up with a man devoted to the study of ginger — The Smithsonian's Curator of Botany — John Kress. The Sterns are eating low-country pizza at The Old Firehouse Restaurant in Hollywood, SC and we look at roasting coffee at home with Tom Owens of Sweet Maria's.
This week we're bringing you a show we recorded live at The Gourmet Institute in New York City. Guests include legendary chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry; Ruth Reichl, editor in chief of Gourmet magazine; Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential; New York Magazine restaurant critic Gael Greene; The James Beard Foundation Chef of the Year, David Pasternack of Esca; John Willoughby, Executive Editor of Gourmet magazine; and affineur Ihsan Gurdal.
The Splendid Table, Greed for Spices, July 11, 2008
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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We're looking at medieval Europe's greed for spices with Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East, Spices and the Medieval Imagination. Jane and Michael Stern are eating old time Florida seafood at Salt Water Cowboys in St. Augustine, and tea expert Bill Waddington explains the ins and outs of real iced tea.
Move over Starbucks, we're roasting our beans at home! We're looking at the home coffee roasting craze with Kenneth Davids author of Home Coffee Roasting. Then, the Sterns are at Sarah's in Billings Montana, Sally Schneider, author of A New Way to Cook, takes on the mysterious quince, and we get the last word on buying shrimp from San Francisco Chronicle food writer Olivia Wu.
This week we meet Suvir Saran, an Indian chef who may be New York's next star chef, He is the author of Indian Home Cooking. Our road food warrior's Jane and Michael Stern are eating sopapillas at the classic Plaza Caf in Santa Fe, NM, cheese monger Steve Jenkins names his favorite cheese of all time, Sally Schneider talks winter squashes, British food sensation Nigel Slater reads from his memoir, Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger and we meet a pizza maker in rural Wisconsin.
The Splendid Table, John Kress and Ginger, November 4, 2011
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By Lynne Rossetto Kasper
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We're meeting up with Smithsonian Curator of Botany, John Kress, a man devoted to the study of ginger. Jane and Michael Stern are eating low country pizza at The Old Firehouse Restaurant in Hollywood, South Carolina and Joan Nathan, author of Quiches, Kugels and Couscous, brings us a look at Jewish food in France.
