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The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

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!

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

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Latest Episodes:

Bouchon Bakery Jul 04, 2014

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We get a master lesson in pie crust from chef Thomas Keller and pastry genius Sebastian Rouxel, authors of Bouchon Bakery, Jane and Michael Stern bring us the very best in extremely hot road food and Mexican chef Roberto Santibañez looks at the Middle Eastern influences on modern day Mexican food.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

July 13, 2013 (originally aired)
July 4, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Lucinda's Meatloaf Jun 20, 2014

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We are meeting up with Lucinda Scala Quinn, author of Mad Hungry Cravings, for another round of Key 3, and we talk with award-winning writer and Texan Robb Walsh about whether or not Tex-Mex is an actual cuisine. He is the author of The Hot Sauce Cookbook.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

June 29, 2013 (originally aired)
June 20, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Smoke Jun 13, 2014

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We're taking our Weber to a more primal state this week with Tim Byres, author of Smoke: New Firewood Cooking, and we get a recipe for Japan's delicious pancake, okonomiyaki, from The Washington Post's food columnist David Hagedorn.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

June 22, 2013 (originally aired)
June 13, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Family Table May 30, 2014

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We take a look at the latest trend in sustainable meat -- goat -- with chef Jesse Griffiths, author of Afield: A Chef's Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish. The Sterns are at Big W's Roadside Bar-B-Q in Wingdale, N.Y., and we talk to Bruce Feiler, author of The Secrets Of Happy Families, about the surprising news on what is really important about family dinner.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

June 8, 2013 (originally aired)
May 30, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Adobo Road May 16, 2014

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This week we talk to spice merchant Lior Lev Sercarz, owner of La Boîte à Epice in New York, we take a look Filipino food with Marvin Gapultos, author of The Adobo Road Cookbook, and turn to the duo behind The Perennial Plate to learn about their food travels in Spain.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

May 25, 2013 (originally aired)
May 16, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Salt Sugar Fat May 02, 2014

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This week we talk to award-winning journalist Michael Moss about the food giants that decide what we eat. He is the author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Chopped's Ted Allen has advice on how to get out of our food ruts and we look at the stirrings of a movement in the wine world, natural wine.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

May 11, 2013 (originally aired)
May 2, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Shared Meals in Blue Zones Apr 18, 2014

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Dan Buettner, author of Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way, tells us about the significance of the shared meal among the world's happiest people. Jane and Michael Stern are tracking down the very best in deli rye and we talk to Dana Bowen about celebrating Easter in Sicily.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

April 23, 2011 (originally aired)
April 18, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Raghavan's Dal Apr 11, 2014

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We’re heading to India for this week’s Key 3 with Raghavan Iyer, author of the best-selling 660 Curries. Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, brings the stories from our tabletops.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

April 27, 2013 (originally aired)
April 11, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Saliva the Superhero Mar 28, 2014

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This week it’s a look at saliva with America’s funniest science writer, Mary Roach, author of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Trail. The Sterns are at the Blue Scorcher Bakery Café in Astoria, Ore., and we learn which salts are really worth the money with salt merchant Mark Bitterman, author of Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

April 6, 2013 (originally aired)
March 28, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Beer Profiles Mar 14, 2014

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Greg Engert's profiling system divides beer into seven categories. Award-winning writer and cook Deborah Madison is here with the missing puzzle piece for vegetable cooking -- the plants themselves -- with her book Vegetable Literacy. We turn to the duo from The Perennial Plate, an online documentary series dedicated to socially responsible and adventurous eating.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

March 23, 2013 (originally aired)
March 14, 2014 (rebroadcast)

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