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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00:00 – 02:07 Intro
02:07 – 07:51 Pomodorata
Wine-expert and fellow tomato-fiend Anthony Giglio talks with Lynne about his annual private all-tomato feast in New Jersey in August.Recipe: Sweet and Piquant Tomato Jam
Website: anthonygiglio.com
07:51 – 12:51 The Sterns
Jane and Michael Stern are eating clam pizza at Zuppardi's Apizza in West Haven, Connecticut.Websites: roadfood.com, zuppardisapizza.com
Book: 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late
12:51 – 14:44 Pie Crust
Lynne's guidelines for making killer pie crust.Recipe: Lynne's Pie Crust Improv Guide: One Formula, Three tricks
15:30 – 21:16 Twain's Feast
Author Andrew Beahrs talks with Lynne about Mark Twain's rich descriptions and love of American food.Recipe: Old Time Blueberry Cobbler
Book: Twain's Feast
21:16 – 25:35 Zucchini Dinner Party
Writer and producer Deena Prichep found a way to use all that zucchini; throw an all-zucchini dinner party!Slideshow: Zucchini Dinner Party
Website: mostlyfoodstuffs.blogspot.com
Recipe: Sweet & Hot Curried Zucchini Pickles
25:35 – 31:37 The Office Fridge
Writer Eric Spitnagel reveals the down-and-dirty details on the toxic office fridge.Article: Welcome to Funkytown
Share your office refrigerator gross-out story
31:37 - 33:21 Trivia
What did Cleopatra do with pickles?They were her beauty secret. She claimed her allure came from eating pickles. Roman emperors, among them Julius Caesar, fed pickles to their troops in the belief that they lent physical and spiritual strength.
Website: New York Food Museum Pickle Timeline Recipe: Ice Box Pickles inspired by Lois Lee
33:21 - 45:00 Calls
Lynne fields calls on what to do with an abundance of basil, cooking for picky eaters, (she recommends Greek cookbooks by Michael Psilakis and Aglaia Kremezi) and what to do with green tomatoes.46:20 – 52:00 Seafood in the Gulf
Susan Spicer (owner of Bayona restaurant in New Orleans) on her lawsuit against BP and the state of seafood in the Gulf of Mexico.This Week's Recipes
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Where We Eat
Jane and Michael Stern
West Haven, CT
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Zuppardi's Apizza
179 Union Avenue
West Haven, CT
(203) 934-1949
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Music
- "Peel Me a Grape" by Diana Krall, from Love Scenes
- "Blue in Green" by Bill Evans Trio, from Riverside Profiles: Bill Evans
- "Hey Hot Tomato" by Chow Nasty, from Super (Electrical) Recordings
- "Funnel of Love" by Southern Culture on the Skids, from Countrypolitan Favorites
- "Viva Tirado" by Fania All Stars, from Latin Soul & Jazz
- "Comets" by Fridge, from The Sun
- "Dead American Writers" by Tired Pony, from The Place We Ran From
- "Gigantic" by The Pixies, from Surfer Rosa
- "Back at the Chicken Shack" by Jimmy Smith, from The Best of Jimmy Smith
- "Call Me" by Al Green, from Call Me
- "The Splendid Table Theme" is written and performed by Billy Barber
