The Splendid Table: Episodes
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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!
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 ...
We're getting ready for Thanksgiving with advice from the chef's chef Jonathan Waxman, author of A Great American Cook. Jane and Michael Stern are at Kozy Korner Cafe and Bar in Winnett, MT, and Deborah Madison, author of the best-selling Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, concocts a vegetarian Thanksgiving ...
This week foods scientist Hal McGee author of the seminal, On Food and Cooking, gives us his take on how restaurant kitchens are adapting to the new world of culinary science. Lynne gives violinist Joshua Bell a private pasta class and Jane and Michael Stern are eating Hungarian at Balaton, in Cleveland, OH.
This week we've a homage to all things porcine, and the story of family life in a rural French village from French chef Stephane Reynaud, author of Pork & Sons, Jane and Michael Stern have found the "krunkest" fish in Nashville at Eastside Fish, and Kim Marcus of The Wine Spectator brings us up to date ...
This week we have the true story of how and why over the past 20 years we have decimated a noble fish, the Patagonian toothfish, aka, Chilean Sea Bass. Bruce Knecht is author of Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish. Jane and Michael Stern are eating corned beef at a Milwaukee icon, Jake's, ...
This week we're meeting chef Katherine Kagel, creator of one of Santa Fe's culinary icons Cafe Pasqual's. Jane and Michael Stern are eating Code Ten chili at Noon Break in Cody, Wyoming, Anya Von Bremzen author of The New Spanish Table introduces us to Spanish smoked paprikas and Los Angeles Times' Russ ...
This week we peek at the fantasy life of a house in Tuscany with Michael Tucker, author of Living in a Foreign Language, A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love. Sally Schneider author of A New Way to Cook gives us a fresh take on pears, and Seattle chef Tom Douglas becomes a gentleman farmer.
This week we're taking you to Spain, to the little known region of Galicia, just north of Portugal. The area may be best known for the pilgrim trail leading to Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of St. James are believed to be interred, but we were there for the wine. This past summer we spent ...
It's everything you will ever need to know about sushi this week. Our guide is Dave Lowry, author of The Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi. Jane and Michael Stern are celebrating the legendary stew burgoo in Owensboro, KY and we challenge Lynne to another round of Stump the Cook with guest Stumpmaster Chris ...
Culinary historian John T. Edge looks at American enterprise through the lens of the donut. He is the author of Donuts: An American Passion. Jane and Michael Stern are at Chopes in La Mesa, NM and we meet David Bedford, the scientist behind one of the world's great apples, the honeycrisp.
We're looking at the new and improved world of food science with Harold McGee author of the classic On Food and Cooking, Jane and Michael Stern are at Short Sugar's BBQ in Reidsville, NC and wine wit Joshua Wesson takes us to Italy's premier wine event, Vin Italy.
This week we talk to journalist Julia Flynn Siler author of The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. Jane and Michael Stern are at Kumback Lunch in Perry, OK, and David Rosengarten looks at the origins of ramen noodles.