Recipes, Listings and Audio | The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper

July 24, 2010

We meet up with Tom Owens, the founder of the cult-status coffee website Sweet Maria's, journalist John Willoughby introduces us to the allure of dried Persian limes; and the Sterns are eating whitefish livers at Maggie's in Bayfield, WI.

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00:00 – 01:40 Intro

01:40 – 06:15 Dried Limes

Journalist John Willoughby talks with Lynne about the versatile, fantastic flavor of dried limes.

Recipe: Dried Lime Tea

06:30 – 13:45 Building a Mud Oven

Sculptor Kiko Denzer says there's no need to shell out ten grand for a wood-fired bread oven. You can build one yourself�from your own dirt and for nearly free.

Recipes: Sourdough Bread, Bread Salad
Book: Build Your Own Earth Oven

14:05 – 22:33 Sweet Maria's Coffee

Tom Owens, founder and owner of Sweet Maria's talks with Lynne about home-roasting your own coffee beans.

Website: sweetmarias.com

22:33 – 26:30 Deborah Madison's Summer Fruit Desserts

Cookbook author Deborah Madison tells us how to sort through the confounding variety of fruits for the best flavors for dessert and how to understand what we're buying from the ground up.

Recipe: Red Berry Soup
Book: Seasonal Fruit Desserts: From Orchard, Farm, and Market