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This Week's Episode
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August 28, 2010
This week we are re-introduced to one of America's greatest tastemakers: Mark Twain. Andrew Beahrs, author of Twains Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens, joins us. We'll figure out something to do with all that zucchini your friends have been bringing over, and Jane and Michael Stern have found freshly shucked clam pizza at Zuppardi's Apizza in West Haven, CT.
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Recipes
Recipes featured on this week's show:
Sweet and Piquant Tomato Jam
Lynne's Pie Crust Improv Guide: One Formula, Three tricks
Old Time Blueberry Cobbler
Sweet & Hot Curried Zucchini Pickles
Ice Box Pickles inspired by Lois Lee
Book Excerpt: Medium Raw
We're pleased to provide an excerpt of Anthony Bourdain's new book Medium Raw, A Bloody Valentine To The World of Food and The People Who Cook. You can read the entire first chapter "Selling Out."
Where We Eat
Jane and Michael Stern
West Haven, CT
Zuppardi's Apizza
179 Union Avenue
West Haven, CT
(203) 934-1949
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Coming up Next week:
September 4, 2010
We're looking at the art of the Asian pickle with Alex Hovzen creator of the Cultured Pickle Shop in Berkely, CA, the Sterns are visiting Moonlight BBQ in Owensboro, KY, Fred Plotkin teaches us how to take an eaters vacation without a rental car, and Amy Stewart author of Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities introduces us to the darker side of Mother Nature.
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August 21, 2010
We're taking a look at the world of extreme tourism with Chuck Thompson, author of To Hellholes and Back. We also dive into the world of self-publishing with the creators of Canal House Cooking; and Lukas Volger, author of Veggie Burgers Every Which Way shares a few alternatives to processed frozen veggie burgers.
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