The Splendid Table

As FoodTV gets less and less useful and interesting, The Splendid Table is quite a good food program that runs on public radio, though not in Chicago. (Host Lynne Rossetto Kasper is also the author of a couple of very nice Italian cookbooks, one of which won the Beard award.)

You can listen to last week's here. The site has some other good resources too.

You can listen to it live on various public radio stations by following the links fromhere. I'm listening to it from Pocatello, Idaho right now.

Mike:

Her book The Splendid Table on the cuisines of Emilia-Romagna is excellent and one of my favourites in general. Plus she's a Jersey girl...



Thanks for the tip.

Antonius

Hi,

I have listened to her program on public radio. It used to be, and perhaps still is, on very early on Sunday mornings. Is her show the one they used to regularly spoof on Saturday Night Live?

I love streaming radio/audio/film on the internet. It's the radio equivalent of TIVO, where you can listen when you can.

Regards,

It doesn't seem readily spoofable... I think it did used to have one of those coveted 6 am Sunday slots here, but not any more. Anyway, much easier to get it from Pocatello or many other such places.

The Splendid Table book is quite good, less so for the recipes (though I've used it happily) than for a lot of interesting history about food in Italy going back to Renaissance times (aka B.T., before tomatoes). One section I thought about when I was making my mincemeat pie is the one that talks about Renaissance-era sweet-savory pies, basically meat pies with cloves and other preservative spices which we wouldn't think of going with beef these days. I'm tempted to make one, even though it probably wouldn't go over these days.