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		<title>APM: The Splendid Table</title>
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		<description>American Public Media's The Splendid Table is public radio's culinary, culture, and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone, hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper. The Splendid Table podcast contains each week's program in its entirety and is updated every Friday.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
		<itunes:summary>American Public Media's The Splendid Table is public radio's culinary, culture, and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone. Each week, award-winning host Lynne Rossetto Kasper leads listeners on a journey of the senses and hosts discussions with a variety of writers and personalities who share their passion for the culinary delights updated every Friday.</itunes:summary>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday May 10, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[We're looking at the education of a wine rookie with Lettie Teague and her student, movie critic Peter Travers. Lettie is the author of Educating Peter. Jane and Michael Stern are in the Mississippi Delta at Rhoda's Famous Hot Tamales and we look at the advent of a new dining trend, one-pot meals served in private homes.]]></description>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday May 3, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[We are looking at the foods of the Philippine's this week with Amy Besa, author of Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near. Jane and Michael Stern are at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville, TN and Sally Schneider author of the award-winning The Improvisational Cook gives us a cooking lesson for spring.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday April 26, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're taking you on a road trip, specifically a wine trip to the Galicia region of Spain. It was one week, one bus, four wine geeks and The Splendid Table. Galicia and it's neighboring area of Bierzo are up and comers in the wine world, and this trip sure explained why.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday April 19, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we've a love letter to the island of Oahu. Honolulu may be the most overlooked food city in the world where we'll meet some of the people shaping that unique island cuisine.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday April 12, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's part 2 of our special record in Italy. Lynne takes us to Emilia-Romagna. This week we begin the tour in Ferrara where the renaissance still rules, and take an unusual look at Emilia-Romagna's crown jewel. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday April 5, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're re-visiting our show recorded in Lynne's beloved Emilia-Romagna. This is the region of Italy that Italians consider their culinary jewel, the land of prosciutto and Parmigiano-Reggiano.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday March 29, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week author John Hailman looks Thomas Jefferson through a unique lens, as a man whose lifelong campaign was to steer the American public away from hard liquor and into the vineyard. He is the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine. Jane and Michael Stern are eating classic San Francisco fare at Sam's Grill, and our opinionated cheese monger Steve Jenkins teaches us how to get out of our cheese rut!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday March 22, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[We are looking at how the miraculous omega-3 fatty acids are disappearing from our Western diet with Susan Allport, author of The Queen of Fats. Jane and Michael Stern are at Skylight Inn BBQ in Ayden, NC and Russ Parsons, author of How to Pick a Peach turns his expertise to spring's fresh peas and fava beans.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday March 15, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're looking a the surprising political power of the banana with Dan Koeppel author of Banana: the Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. Jane and Michael Stern are eating first rate Mexican food in the sugar beet belt at Rosita's in Scottsbluff, NE, and Sally Schneider author of The Improvisational Cook introduces us to the savory side of lemons.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday March 8, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[Award-winning actress and author Madhur Jaffrey joins us with tales from her childhood, both culinary and political in nature. Her latest book is her memoir Climbing the Mango Trees. Jane and Michael Stern are eating Michigan's at McSweeney's in Plattsburgh, NY, and chef Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune in New York City gives us an insiders glimpse of the sometimes brutal life of a restaurant kitchen. She is the author of the essay It's All Fun and Games Until ... , from the collection, How I Learned to Cook.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday March 1, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're looking at the flavors of the golden age of Arab cuisine with Charles Perry author of Medevial Cuisine of the Islamic World, and Jane and Michael Stern are breakfasting at Kitchen Little in Mystic Connecticut.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday February 23, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[We are looking at the history of the kitchen in America this week with Steven Gdula author of The Warmest Room in the House and Jane and Michael Stern are eating eggnog waffles and espresso twinkies at Bette's Oceanview Diner in Berkeley, CA.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday February 16, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[We're taking you behind the scenes of the legendary restaurant, Per Se in NYC. Our guide, a waitress. Phoebe Damrosch is the author of Service Included, Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter. Jane and Michael Stern are at the Grove Cafe in Ames, IA and cheesemonger Steve Jenkins introduces us to the cheeses of the Pyrenees.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday February 9, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we meet one of the women who introduced authentic Chinese food to America. Cecilia Chiang is the author of The Seventh Daughter, My Culinary Journey from Beijing to San Francisco. Jane and Michael Stern are noshing in Tuscon, AZ at Feigs Kosher Foods and Dorrie Greenspan teaches us to taste chocolate just in time for your Valentine.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday February 2, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're looking at how we became a gourmet nation with David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula. Jane and Michael Stern are at the legendary Pancake Pantry in Nashville, TN, and Deborah Krasner opens up the world of culinary travel.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday January 26, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we are taking an in-depth look at one of the great culinary arts, stock making with Michael Ruhlman, author of The Elements of Cooking, Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen. Jane and Michael Stern are in Cambridge, MA at the All Star Sandwich Bar, and Ken Albala author of Beans, A History brings us a cultural and historical look.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday January 19, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[We are looking at the vegan revolution this week with Isa Chandra Moskowitz author of Veganomicon. Jane and Michael Stern are at the Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen in Chapel Hill, NC, and David Rosengarten of The Rosengarten Report introduces us to the food of Hyderabad, India.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday January 12, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 savior, the souffle.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday January 5, 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 Lynne to another round of Stump the Cook.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 29, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 trip to Vienna.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 22, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 -- rocquefort.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 15, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 8, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 picks of the best in holiday gifts for the cook.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 1, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 beauty of trotters. He's the author of Beyond Nose to Tail.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table Turkey Confidential, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday November 24, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 Table regular Dorie Greenspan author of the must-have cookbook, Baking, From My Home to Yours.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday November 17, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 feast just for us.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday November 10, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday November 3, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 on the wines of Portugal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday October 27, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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, Food and Wine Magazine's Ray Isle introduces to the wide world of tequila and self-named pleasure activist and world traveler Fred Plotkin takes us to one of South America's greatest cities, Santiago, Chile.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday October 20, 2007</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday October 6, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 a week on a bus with a group of journalists exploring the area's emerging wine region, and lived to tell you this tale!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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 Kimball of Cook's Illustrated Magazine.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday September 15, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday September 8, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday September 1, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[We're getting ready to start packing kid's lunches again, and this week we get advice from that consumer rights warrior Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat. Jane and Michael Stern are at Al's Corner Restaurant in Barberton, OH, and we look at Vietnamese grilling with chef Mai Pham, author of The Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday August 25, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week it's a tribute to the derring-do behind the greatest grilling contraptions in the country with Dan Huntley, co-author of Extreme BBQ: Smokin' Rigs and Real Good Recipes. Jane and Michael Stern are eating soul food at Niecie's in Kansas City, MO, and Karen Feder introduces us to an unknown side of Liberace with her book, Joy of Liberace, Retro Recipes from America's Kitschiest Kitchen.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday August 18, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[Fred Plotkin author of Italy for the Gourmet Traveler, takes us down an Italian road less traveled - the Marche region of Italy. Jane and Michael Stern are eating soul food at Feed in Chicago, and chef Jerry Traunfeld author of The Herbal Kitchen introduces us to some sophisticated herbal cocktails.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday August 11, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we talk to Jeffrey Roberts author of The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese, Jane and, Michael Stern are at Mabel's Lobster Claw in Kennebunkport, ME, and Wine Spectator's Kim Marcus introduces us the rediscovered wines of Greece.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday August 4, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week it's the epitome of seafood cooks, Boston's Jasper White author of The Summer Shack Cookbook, Jane and Michael Stern are eating runza at the Gering Bakery in Gering NE. Wine maverick Joshua Wesson is back with red wines for white wine lovers. Nancy Harmon Jenkins celebrates the tomato and we get the dish on hot dogs.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday July 28, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[We are taking a look at the unique foodways of the Texas cattlemen with Robb Walsh author of The Texas Cowboy Cookbook. Jane and Michael Stern are eating stellar seafood in James Beard's hometown, Seaside, OR at Norma's Ocean Diner and Gourmet magazine's John Willoughby shares his picks of the best in destination dining.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday July 21, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we talk to journalist Dave Plotnikoff about his hike from the Mexican border to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail and the food that ended up being the touchpoint of the trip. He is the author of Hungry Man from the July 2007 issue of Saveur magazine. Jane and Michael Stern are eating planked whitefish and ice cream "Thunderclouds" at Juilleret's in Harbor Springs, MI, and Russ Parsons, author of How to Pick a Peach explains the rules about produce and the refrigerator. Always refrigerate corn on the cob, and never a tomato.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday July 14, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[As flowers bloom across the country, we're taking a look at honey with Holley Bishop, author of Robbing the Bees, a Biography of Honey, the Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World. The Sterns are at Top Pot Donuts in Seattle, WA, and wine entrepreneur Joshua Wesson introduces us to some unsung white in time for summer picnics.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday July 7, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[We have a look at German Rieslings with one of Germany's premier riesling makers -- Dr. Ernst Loosen. Jane and Michael Stern have stumbled on a car wash that serves first-rate Mexican breakfasts, H and H Car Wash in El Paso Texas. Sally Schneider author of A New Way to Cook teaches us to rev up our vinegars, and we look at the history of lunch with food historian Andrew Smith.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday June 30, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[Trevor Corson, author of The Zen of Fish, talks sushi; the Sterns are eating cinnamon rolls at Johnson Corners in Loveland, Colorado; it's Middle Eastern grilling with Claudia Roden, Lynne samples Scotch whiskey with John Glaser, and Jacques Pepin stops by with simple things you can do to make sensational eating.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday June 23, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're bringing you a show recorded live at the 2006 Monterey Bay Aquarium's, Cooking For Solutions weekend in Monterey California. It's an in-depth look at one of the culinary world's biggest issues—healthy and sustainable seafood. We talk to Jennifer Dianto of The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program, Mexican chef Benito Molino, Rebecca Goldberg of Environmental Defense, and Lynne does some DNA sleuthing with Professor Steve Palumbi at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday June 16, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we meet NY chef and fisherman David Pasternack, author of The Young Man and the Sea. The Sterns are in Vinita, OK eating blue ribbon pie at Clanton's, and our regular wine wit Josh Wesson reports in on the latest happenings in the wine world.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday June 9, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're talking to distinguished nutritionist and food activist Marian Nestle about who should really be responsible for our food supply. She is the author of What To Eat. The Sterns are at Standard Baking on the Portland, ME waterfront and Sally Schneider author of the award-winning The Improvisational Cook gives us a new view of the kitchen staple, the egg.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday June 2, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[All those people talking about a wine's terroir, meaning the place the grapes come from. Can we really taste it? We get the scientific last word from Harold McGee author of the seminal On Food and Cooking. Jane and Michael Stern are at Woodyard Bar-B-Que in Kansas City, KS, and novelist Nicole Mones tell us about the time in Chinese culinary history which she used as a framework for her latest novel, The Last Chinese Chef.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday May 26, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[We are looking at the foods of the Philippines this week with Amy Besa, author of Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near, we go on a search for edible weeds, and Sally Schneider author of the award-winning The Improvisational Cook gives us a cooking lesson for spring.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday May 19, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week journalist Russ Parsons explains how vegetables are grown, marketed, sold and most importantly, how that affects their taste. He is the author of How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor From Farm to Table. Jane and Michael Stern are in Akron, OH at Besides the Point Cafe, and just in time for grilling season, Gourmet Magazine's John Willoughby explains why he has forsaken the marinade, and fallen madly in love with the spice paste.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday May 12, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[We're taking a scholarly look at American junk food with Andrew Smith author of The Junk Food Encyclopedia, Jane and Michael Stern are in Manchester, VT breakfasting at Up For Breakfast, and Food and Wine Magzine's wine editor Ray Isle walks us through his picks of bargain wines.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday May 5, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we look at one of our most primal urges, hunger, with Sharman Apt Russell author of Hunger, An Unnatural History. Jane and Michael Stern take us to Tony Luke's in Philadelphia for a world class Italian roast pork sandwich, and we talk with the founder of the groundbreaking cattle rancher Bill Niman of Niman's Ranch about our meat industry.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday April 28, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[We're looking a the education of a wine rookie with Lettie Teague and her student, movie critic Peter Travers. Lettie is the author of Educating Peter, How I Taught a Famous Movie Critic the Difference Between Cabernet and Merlot or How Anybody Can Become and (Almost) Instant Wine Critic. Jane and Michael Stern are in the Mississippi Delta at Rhoda's Famous Hot Tamales and we look at the advent of a new dining trend, one-pot meals served in private homes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday April 21, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we take a look at the culinary garden with famed garden writer Katherine Whiteside, author of The Way we Garden Now. The Sterns are going Goth in Portland at Voodoo Donuts, and NY food authority Mike Colameco says forget dining out, New York City is the perfect place for a picnic.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday April 14, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we meet New York Magazine's legendary food critic Gael Greene. Her new memoir is Insatiable: Tales From a Delicious Life of Excess. Jane and Michael Stern love pharmacy cafeterias, and have found near perfection at the Avalon Diner in Houston, and Sally Schneider author of A New Way to Cook takes on the sour stalks of spring, rhubarb.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday April 7, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we as we are moving into spring, we're talking to organic farmer and scholar Fred Kirschenmann of The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, about how to make new vision for the way we produce our food. Jane and Michael Stern are eating chicken fried steak at the Rock Cafe in Stroud, Oklahoma and we meet up with Dennis Von Englesdorp, a bee scientist studying the mysterious colony collapse devastating America's bee population.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday March 31, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[We're meeting the culinary grande dame of the publishing world, Judith Jones, Senior Editor of Knopf Books. Judith began her career with a manuscript from an unknown Francophile named Julia Child and has not stopped since. Jane and Michael Stern are at Mike Linnig's Fish Camp in Louisville, KY, and wine wit Joshua Wesson of Best Cellars wine shops fills us in on the bargains to be found in second labels.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday March 24, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week author John Hailman looks Thomas Jefferson through a unique lens, as a man whose lifelong campaign was to steer the American public away from hard liquor and into the vineyard. He is the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine. Jane and Michael Stern are eating classic San Francisco fare at Sam's Grill and our opinionated cheesemonger Steve Jenkins teaches us how to get out of our cheese rut!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday March 17, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[Award-winning actress and author Madhur Jaffrey joins us with tales from her childhood, both culinary and political in nature. Her latest book is her memoir Climbing the Mango Trees, Jane and Michael Stern are eating Michigans at McSweeneys in Plattsburgh, NY, and chef Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune in New York City gives us an insiders glimpse of the sometimes brutal life of a restaurant kitchen. She is the author of the essay It's All Fun and Games Until ..., from the collection, How I Learned to Cook.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This week we get a real life guide to pairing food and drink, (not just wine) from Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg. They're the authors of What to Drink with What You Eat. Jane and Michael Stern are in Tampa, FL at La Teresita, a 3-meals-a-day Cuban cafe, our wine guy Josh Wesson bust some common wine myths, and spice merchant Nirmala Narine deciphers the ubiquitous bay leave. She is author of In Nirmala's Kitchen, Everyday World Cuisine.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This week it's Part Two of our tenth anniversary special recorded in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. This is the region of Italy that Italians consider their culinary jewel, the land of prosciutto and Parmigiano-Reggiano.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This week Master of Wine Mary Ewing Mulligan author of Wine Style: Using Your Senses to Explore and Enjoy Wine teaches us how figure out what the wine will taste like before you open the bottle. Jane and Michael Stern have found the mother load of Jewish cooking in Montreal. Bon Appetit's gadget tester Dorrie Greenspan evaluates the silicone revolution in the kitchen, and guest Stumpmaster Christopher Kimball of Cook's Illustrated magazine and a listener put Lynne to the test in another round of Stump the Cook.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This week we're bringing you a special one-hour program recorded in Hawaii. It's a look at the food and culture of Honolulu and its island of Oahu that few tourists see. We talk with legendary chef Alan Wong, tour the shops and markets of Honolulu's Chinatown, and take a whirlwind trip around the island of Oahu.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We're looking at Mexico's culinary identity through the lens of the tamale with Professor Jeffrey Pilcher this week. He's the author of Que Vivan Los Tamales: Food and The Making of Mexican Identity. Jane and Michael Stern are noshing chop suey sandwiches at Evelyn's Drive-In in Tiverton, RI and chef Jerry Traunfeld author of The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor introduces us to the herb shiso.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Natural scent expert Mandy Aftel, co-author with Chef Daniel Patterson of Aroma, The Magic of Essential Oils in Food and Fragrance, talks about perfuming our food. The Sterns stop by Cincinnati's Blue Ash Chili, and we find some amazing uses for liquid nitrogen in the kitchen.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This week we're meeting Elizabeth Andoh, author of the much anticipated Washoku, Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen. Jane and Michael Stern are in Oklahoma City at Cattleman's, and we learn the French way with a scallop from Thierry Rautureau of Seattle's famed Rover's restaurant.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We're going back to the essence of the kitchen this week with Jennifer McLagan author of Bones, Recipes, History and Lore. The Stern's have found exceptional bread at Wave Hill Bakery in Wilton, CT, and Sally Schneider author of A New Way to Cook has a fast trick for weeknight meals, cooking under a brick!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday January 13, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're looking at how we became a gourmet nation with David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula. Jane and Michael Stern are at the legendary Pancake Pantry in Nashville, TN, and Deborah Krasner opens up the world of culinary travel.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday January 6, 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[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, (our beloved Stumpmaster), of Cook's Illustrated magazine challenges Lynne to another round of Stump the Cook.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 30, 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we talk to Paula Wolfert about the reissue of her classic The Cooking of Southwest France, The Sterns are eating Indian fry bread in Greybull, WY at Lisa's, bestselling author Peter Mayle has taken on French wine, French festivals and now he's taken on French bread in his new book Confessions of a French Baker, and we meet the woman and culture behind one of Portland, Oregon's best restaurants, Andina, sophisticated Peruvian cuisine.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 23, 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[Britain's beloved columnist Nigel Slater joins us this week with reflections on cooking at home. He is the author of The Kitchen Diaries, A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater. The Sterns are eating tamales for the holidays at Napolito in Las Cruces, NM, and Amy Sedaris author of I Like You, Hospitality Under the Influence muses on navigating family over the dinner table.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 16, 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 trip to Vienna.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 9, 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[From war zone to vacation destination, this is only one of the remarkable ways Vietnam has transformed itself over the centuries, This week Andrea Nguyen author of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen joins us with a look at Vietnam's past and the role it has played in its cuisine. The Sterns are at Hocutt's BBQ in Moundsville, WV, and journalist Francine Maroukian gives us her shortlist of the best in mail order.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday December 2, 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[Novelist and wine writer Jay McInerney introduces us to some of his favorite characters in the wine business. Jay is the author of A Hedonist in the Cellar, Adventures in Wine. Jane and Michael Stern are at Hamburger King in Shawnee, OK, Dorie Greenspan author of Baking, From My Home to Yours, kicks off the first in our new "Master Class" series. Her subject - the cookie!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday November 25, 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[We're looking at the art of Chinese cooking, reinterpreted for American kitchens with chef Susanna Foo, author of Susanna Foo Fresh Inspiration. Jane and Michael Stern are at the White River Fish Market in Tulsa, OK, we meet the Soup Peddler of Austin Texas, and wine wit Joshua Wesson deciphers the mysterious and somewhat spiritual biodynamic wine.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday November 18, 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week we're looking at the art of hospitality with a man behind some of New York City's most beloved restaurants. Danny Meyer is the author of Setting the Table; The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business. Jane and Michael Stern are all about pies this week, from Seattle to Connecticut, and crack cook Sally Schneider author of the newly published Improvisational Cook streamlines and improvises our Thanksgiving feast.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Splendid Table for Saturday November 11, 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[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 Table regular Dorie Greenspan author of the must-have Baking; From My Home to Yours]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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