The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
Episodes
Judith Jones
31 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're going inside the process of how exceptional cookbooks are brought to life. Our guide is Judith Jones, often called the cookbook editor...
What to Drink With What You Eat
10 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a look at how the pros decide what to drink with nearly every food you can imagine. Our guest, Karen Page, author of What to Drink With...
Wine Style
24 Feb 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This week Mary Ewing-Mulligan puts wine where she thinks it belongs: it's all about taste. Mary claims quality is second to flavor, geography is more ...
Tamales
10 Feb 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine Mexico without tacos or tamales. Imagine Mexican intellectuals trying to eliminate corn from the country where it was born. History professor ...
Perfuming Our Food
03 Feb 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Natural scent expert Mandy Aftel, co-author with Chef Daniel Patterson of Aroma, The Magic of Essential Oils in Food and Fragrance, joins us this week...
Washoku
27 Jan 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Japanese culinary scholar Elizabeth Andoh talks washoku, the philosophical and spiritual heart of traditional Japanese home cooking. It's a concept of...
Bones
20 Jan 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Check out the grocery meat case these days and there's rarely a bone in sight. We're talking flavor-enhancing bones that give cuts of meat ambrosial s...
Cooking in Southwest France
30 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Wolfert, the culinary scholar and author who brought cassoulet, roast garlic and confit to America, joins us to talk about the updating of her g...
The Kitchen Diaries
23 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Britain's beloved columnist Nigel Slater joins us this week to reflect on cooking at home. He talks a kinder, gentler English Christmas and shares his...
The Vietnamese Kitchen
09 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week our guest, Andrea Nguyen, takes us to Vietnam for a look at the culture and lore behind a cuisine that began 4,000 years ago with a prince f...
A Hedonist in the Wine Cellar
02 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week novelist and wine critic Jay McInerney joins us to talk "wine characters" he loves. From the brilliant to the beguiling to the outrageous, i...
Susanna Foo
25 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning chef Susanna Foo shook up the traditionalists at her Philadelphia restaurant by marrying international cooking techniques and American i...
Turkey Confidential 2006
23 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Lynne is here when you need her the most, just a phone call or e-mail away. Don't miss one of the liveliest call-ins of the year. It's Thanksgiving tr...
Setting the Table
18 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Thanksgiving opens the season for hospitality. Between now and January we'll carve turkeys, swap cookies, light candles and be terribly social. There'...
Julie & Julia
07 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
At 29, our guest Julie Powell was stuck in a mind numbing job and feeling defeated, aimless and depressed. In one eureka (some would say deranged) mom...
Judgment of Paris
30 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a French moment back in 1976 that turned the tide for California wine. Our guest is former Time magazine correspondent George Taber, au...
Home Coffee Roasting
16 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's bliss and total control for coffee lovers. We're talking home coffee roasting with Kenneth Davids, author of Home Coffee Roasting: Roma...
Heat
09 Sep 2006
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Why would a successful New York magazine editor willingly take six months off to become a slave in a restaurant kitchen? Our guest, Bill Buford, edito...
Peanut
02 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's an often-overlooked gem that food snobs never take seriously: the great American peanut. Our guest, food writer Wendell Brock, takes us...
Martha's Vineyard
19 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's the classic summer place: Martha's Vineyard. It always tempts vacationers to stay, and some move in. Our guest, Vineyard native and loc...
Street Food
12 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what food pros want to eat when they travel? Gourmet magazine's John Willoughby says it's street food. He joins us this week wi...
On Rue Tatin
29 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a look at one woman's dream job: buy a French farmhouse, renovate, and pay for it by opening a cooking school. Our guest, Susan Herrman...
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
15 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We're looking at six mind-altering potables and their impact on human evolution with our guest Tom Standage, author of A History of the World in Six G...
The Perfectionist
01 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a look at life and death in haute cuisine. Guest Rudolph Chelminski takes us into the world of French restaurant culture, where one sta...
Eating Korean
17 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking Korean food this week with Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee, author of Eating Korean, From Barbecue to Kimchi, Recipes from My Home. Korean cuisine i...
Frank Stitt's Southern Table
10 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning chef Frank Stitt put Alabama on the gastronomic map with his mecca of great eating, Highlands Bar and Grill in Birmingham. He joins us t...
Curry
03 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week Lizzie Collingham, author of Curry: A Tale of Cook's and Conquerors, joins us for a look at the history of India through its curries. She sa...
Fried Chicken with John T. Edge
20 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
John T. Edge, Southern food and culture historian and director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, joins us this week and he's talking fried chicken. H...
Buenos Aires Italian
06 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's all things Italian but not in Italy. Instead of heading east to Rome, we're going south to Buenos Aires where the descendants of two mi...
Andante Dairy
29 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We'll go inside the dairy with Soyoung Scanlon, California's new star cheese maker who has celebrity chefs kissing the hem of her apron. She follows t...
Three Guys from Miami
01 Apr 2006
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This week it's Cuban Miami with Glenn, Raul, and Jorge. The "Three Guys from Miami" love to eat, they love their town, and they give us advice on wher...
Umami
25 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
If you've always suspected that taste goes beyond science's big four of sweet, sour, salt and bitter your instincts are right. This week we're looking...
Queenan Country
18 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Queenan, that quirky observer of the human comedy, takes us his England this week. It's a place of people driven by good-natured insanity, where h...
Molecular Gastronomy
11 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week we take a look at the new kitchen science that has haute restaurant chefs rethinking everything, taking foods apart and putting them back to...
A New Way to Buy Wine
25 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a look at a new way to buy wine and it has everything to do with knowing the importers and distributors. Neal Rosenthal of Rosenthal Wi...
Australia's Food Scene
18 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We're off to Australia where it's summer now and the food scene is hot. Aussie star chef Bill Granger tells us where and what to eat in Sydney. His bo...
The Breath of a Wok
21 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese food authority Grace Young joins us this week with the story of China's famous pot and shares tips on how to achieve the perfect stir-fry. She...
Vegetable Love
14 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This week our guest is Barbara Kafka, one of the masterful cooks in the food profession. When Barbara digs into a subject she takes no prisoners. She'...
Inspiring Thirst
07 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
San Francisco wine merchant and importer Kermit Lynch joins us this week with the story of how he entered the wine world through the back door and end...
Per Se
31 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's the mother of all kitchen tours. Thomas Keller is repeatedly named the best chef in the country. When he set out to duplicate his famed...
Great Food Around the World
24 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Today we offer our holiday special, a special guide to reveling, relaxing, and reflecting. This is a remarkable time of the year and no matter where y...
Charcuterie
17 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking all things salted, cured and smoked with food writer Michael Ruhlman, co-author of Charcuterie. In Europe, charcuterie is high...
Burgundy
03 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Master Sommelier Andrea Immer Robinson joins us this week to talk Burgundy wine. It's the tricky but luscious older brother of Pinot Noir that the mov...
Indian Home Cooking
26 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest could be New York's next star chef. He's Suvir Saran, author of Indian Home Cooking. His food is all about clear, singing flavors an...
Thanksgiving
19 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
It's our annual Thanksgiving show and we're bringing you a banquet of recipes, stories, a cut of history, and new looks at feasting inside and outside...
The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics
05 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a blast from the past - the macrobiotic diet - with Jessica Porter, author of The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics. Jessica has a fres...
Farmer's Diner
22 Oct 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Tod Murphy is a man who's giving restaurant chains a run for their money. His Farmer's Diner in Barre, Vermont serves up good, cheap food from local f...
Michael Bauer and the San Francisco Chronicle
01 Oct 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a newspaper that gets it. America is food obsessed as never before, yet newspapers across the country are slashing their food sections ...
Zinfandel
10 Sep 2005
Contributed by Lukas
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, au...
Spaces for Entertaining
03 Sep 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're creating spaces for entertaining. It's not about remodeling, it's about working with what you already have. Our guest is architect Sar...
Cooking for Kings
20 Aug 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a look at Antonin Carême, the world's first celebrity chef. Abandoned by his family at age nine to starve on the streets of Paris, Car...
From Curries to Kebabs with Madhur Jaffrey
13 Aug 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Indian food expert Madhur Jaffrey joins us this week with the tale of how curry turned global. It's all about India's caste system and Britain's lust ...
The Secret Life of Lobsters
30 Jul 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week, our guest Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of Lobsters, takes a new look at endangered sea life. It's story of underwater feminism,...
Summer in Provence
02 Jul 2005
Contributed by Lukas
We're talking living and eating in the south of France with none other than Patricia Wells, restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune and...
A Good Year
25 Jun 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence, joins us this week with a send-up of France's latest wine craze. It's all about the scams and hype that hav...
Candyfreak
18 Jun 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's the story of a life-altering sweet tooth. Our guest, Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak, has lived his entire life for candy and surely...
Big Bites with Linda Ellerbee
28 May 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Funny and frank journalist Linda Ellerbee joins us this week to talk travel, eating, and the meaning of life. She shares a recipe for Mama's Rescued F...
The Accidental Connoisseur
14 May 2005
Contributed by Lukas
When our guest, Lawrence Osbourne, wondered if he could trust his own palate he went inside the wine world to find out. He'll tell us what he learned....
Fetzer Vineyards
30 Apr 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Dolan, president of Fetzer Vineyards and author of True to Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolution, has made some unconventional changes at o...
Cooking by Hand
23 Apr 2005
Contributed by Lukas
California Chef Paul Bertolli, author of Cooking by Hand, gives new meaning to "cooking from scratch." He makes his own balsamic vinegar, cures his ow...
The Botanist and the Vintner
02 Apr 2005
Contributed by Lukas
British journalist Christy Campbell joins us this week with the story behind the plague that threatened to destroy the world's vineyards. The fascinat...
Sichuan Cooking
26 Mar 2005
Contributed by Lukas
"Our guest is BBC journalist Fuchsia Dunlop, the first foreigner invited to study at the professional chef's school in Sichuan, China. She fell in lov...
Cooking Contests
12 Mar 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's heartbreak, glory, and big money. We're talking cooking contests with Amy Sutherland, author of Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America. If yo...
Cooking in Dixie
26 Feb 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's the story of two Southern cooks from different generations, different places, and different races. Young chef Scott Peacock talks about...
Winter Grilling
15 Feb 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Brush the snow off the Weber! Steven Raichlen is back and he's talking winter grilling. Never mind that the wind chill is 10 below. Steven's Green Lig...
Domesticating Goat Cheese
29 Jan 2005
Contributed by Lukas
This week Miles Cahn, creator of Coach handbags and, ultimately, Coach Farm Goat Cheese, tells the story of trading big-city life for dairy farming in...
Food Fight
15 Jan 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that one quarter of all vegetables eaten in America are french fries? Our guest, Dr. Kelly Brownell, Director of the Yale Center for Eati...
Raw
01 Jan 2005
Contributed by Lukas
We're cooking in the raw, vegan style, with renowned Chicago chef Charlie Trotter, co-author of a new book aptly titled Raw. It's stunning food using ...
Slow Food New York
25 Dec 2004
Contributed by Lukas
We're off to Manhattan's Lower East Side, one of the Big Apple's great culinary neighborhoods with our guide Ben Watson, co-author of The Slow Food Gu...
Christmas with Nigella
18 Dec 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's Christmas with England's Nigella Lawson, the lustiest, yet pragmatic, cook we know. She'll talk the feast, with ideas for taking the pr...
On Food and Cooking
04 Dec 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Lynne talks with Harold McGee, the man who took food science from the laboratory into home kitchens. He recently updated his classic tome from twenty ...
Diana Kennedy's Tamale Tour
27 Nov 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Diana Kennedy, one of the food world's great trailblazers, takes us on a tamale tour of Mexico. Ms. Kennedy has spent her career tracking every nuance...
Thanksgiving '04
20 Nov 2004
Contributed by Lukas
It's our annual Thanksgiving show and we're doing the big bird, big time. Famed San Francisco chef Judy Rodgers, author of The Zuni Café Cookbook, sh...
The Not So Big House
13 Nov 2004
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Gourmet Institute
30 Oct 2004
Contributed by Lukas
We're bringing you the show we recorded live on stage at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City to kick off the second annual Gourmet Ins...
Dining in Spain
23 Oct 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Spain is where to go now to experience the latest culinary evolution. In restaurants where the country's top young chefs preside over the kitchen, new...
Excellent Kitchen Adventures
16 Oct 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned Mexican chef Rick Bayless and his daughter Lanie join us this week with a multigenerational take on food and cooking. Their book, Rick and La...
Scandinavian Cooking
18 Sep 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the world's most intriguing cooking comes from a place where the living hasn't always been easy. It's Scandinavia, and Norwegian food authorit...
A History of Candy
04 Sep 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's all about sweets. We'll take a look at the great candy civilizations—ancient India and Persia—and their contribution to our modern ...
Food, Sex, and Foraging
28 Aug 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's food and the sexes. Naturalist Susan Allport, author of Primal Feast, examines how gender shapes food behavior for humans and other ani...
Two Valleys
14 Aug 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's class warfare in the California wine country. We'll take a look at growth and development versus local culture as new money from the Si...
Salt: The Grain of Life
31 Jul 2004
Contributed by Lukas
It seems that salt has taken on a life of its own these days, now that we can choose the sea we want it from and even the color. We'll take a look at ...
Easy Summer Entertaining
03 Jul 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a guide to easy summer entertaining with Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmetmagazine. Ruth is an expert hostess and former caterer ...
The Joys of Eating Vegetarian
26 Jun 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's the story behind Greens, the first eatery to turn vegetables into serious, fabulous eating. Today, some twenty years later, the San Fra...
California Cuisine
19 Jun 2004
Contributed by Lukas
"We're taking a look at the groundbreaking culinary revolution that blasted onto the scene in the 1970's, sending foodies of that era into fits of rap...
Thai Food
05 Jun 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week we'll hear how Buddhism and karma shape the most sophisticated cooking in Southeast Asia. Our guest, David Thompson, calls it "the cuisine t...
Around the Roman Table
22 May 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Food historian Patrick Faas, author of Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome, takes us back to a time when flamingo tongues were f...
Supersize Me
15 May 2004
Contributed by Lukas
"We're fat, we're sick, and it's all your fault!" was the essence of a lawsuit brought by two teenagers against McDonald's. They denied it. Filmmaker ...
May 8: Jacques Pepin
08 May 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Broadcast dates for this episode:May 8, 2004
Mushrooms and Fungi
24 Apr 2004
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking a look at fungi, organisms that can feed you, make you crazy, take down your house, devour flesh, and save your life. Our guest is Nichol...
The Williams in Williams-Sonoma
10 Apr 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Lynne talks with Chuck Williams, the creator and vice chairman of the Williams-Sonoma retail empire. Back in the 1950s, when the pressure cooker was s...
Gin Craze
27 Mar 2004
Contributed by Lukas
The gin craze in eighteenth-century London was a 30-year reign that both elevated and devastated an era. We'll hear the story from Jessica Warner, aut...
The Passionate Vegetarian
06 Mar 2004
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking a look at vegetarian meat substitutes—things with names like tempeh, seitan, and textured soy protein—that make cutting back on anima...
Made in Marseille
21 Feb 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's an eater's guide to the port city of Marseille with Daniel Young, author of Made in Marseille: Food and Flavors from France's Mediterra...
Movie Menus
21 Feb 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Dust off the TV trays. We're partying with Oscar and the stars! Movie buff and food historian Francine Segan shares "Best Picture Menus" to pair with ...
Fair Trade Coffee
07 Feb 2004
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's global politics at the grocery store when our guests Anne Marie Ruff and Kevin Knox examine two sides of the controversial fair trade c...
Eat This Or Die
03 Jan 2004
Contributed by Lukas
When your career involves chowing down on things like fries cooked in bacon fat with a steak chaser, what do you do when your health hits the wall? Jo...
Cooking with Fire
27 Dec 2003
Contributed by Lukas
This week it’s primal cooking at its most seductive—over an open fire. Our guest is William Rubel, author of The Magic of Fire. He leaves us with ...
Paula Wolfert
20 Dec 2003
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanza, we're here to help with guest Paula Wolfert, author of The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes f...
Paris Sweets
06 Dec 2003
Contributed by Lukas
The baking season is here, the oven is cranked and we have recipes for you from the great bakers of Paris via Dorie Greenspan. Dorie's book, Paris Swe...