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March 2002
March 2 - March 9 - March 16 - March 23 - March 30
(How to listen)
March 2: Good Beer | Listen
This week it's out with Chardonnay and Cabernet and in with lager and ale, as we look at pairing food with beer. From grilled chicken with ale to chocolate cake with stout, bold-tasting premium beers are what to drink now. Stephen Beaumont, author of Premium Beer Drinker's Guide, joins us with tips for matching these unusual beers with what you're having for dinner tonight.
Jane and Michael Stern are in the Texas hill country where they're eating good Texas barbecue for dinner. Herb genius Jerry Traunfeld is back and he's talking dandelions. With his recipe for Dandelion Petal Sorbet, you could be eating from your lawn this spring. Art and dining historian Carolin Young takes us back to 18th-century France and Marie Antoinette's pleasure dairy at Rambouillet. If you'll be in New York City next fall, attend Carolin's lecture series at Sotheby's Institute of Art. As always, Lynne will have a trivia question and take your calls.
Featured clip: Jerry Traunfeld on Dandelion Petal Sorbet
March 9: Eating Appalachian | Listen
We're eating Appalachian this week with food writers Ted and Matt Lee, two brothers who rented a pickup truck and headed for the back roads of Eastern Kentucky in search of the elusive pawpaw fruit. Along the way, they discovered that good food is more about human ingenuity than rich resources. Read more about their adventure in the article, "On the Appalachian Trail" in the March 2002 issue of Food & Wine magazine.
Jane and Michael Stern are eating "a little slice of heaven" at Carminuccio's in Newton, Connecticut. We'll hear how Julia Child's Cambridge kitchen ended up at the Smithsonian, take a peek inside her "junk drawer," and share recipes for Primal Soups from her book, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom. Patricia Volk, author of Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family, tells of the heartbreak of falling in love with a taste, and Joshua Wesson talks Cava - the bargain bubbly from Spain. Finally, we'll hear about a new and quite strange take on peanut butter.
March 16: What Kids Taste | Listen
This week it's a look at why we prefer some foods more than others with Dr. Julie Menella of the Monell Chemical Senses Center. Dr. Menella studies taste preferences in infants and explains why one kid won't eat broccoli and another hates carrots.
Jane and Michael Stern return to Keaton's, one of Jane's top five road food favorites, for the outrageous fried chicken and southern-style side dishes. When they're dining at home, the Sterns might whip up some Lemonade Fried Chicken from their book, Blue Plate Specials and Blue Ribbon Chefs.
David Rosengarten talks travel guides and reveals his new top pick. Culinary adventurer Naomi Duguid, co-author of Seductions of Rice, takes us along the rice trail into West Africa and has another citrus-based recipe: Lemon Chicken. We turn to Stephen Beaumont to fill us in on Imperial Stout, and we'll learn about Cloaca, one artist's take on human digestion currently installed at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.
Featured clip: Stephen Beaumont on Imperial Stouts
March 23: The American Cocktail | Listen
When Americans first mixed spirits and poured them over ice, they took a path with alcohol that set them apart from the rest of the world. William Grimes, restaurant critic for The New York Times and author of Straight Up Or On the Rocks, joins us with the story of how the cocktail came to be and why it has a place alongside other Americana like animated cartoons, comic strips, and jazz. He shares recipes for a Vesper (the James Bond martini) and a Champagne Cocktail.
Jane and Michael Stern are eating shrimp boats in New Orleans, and wine maverick Joshua Wesson of Best Cellars recommends white Burgundies we can actually afford. Reporter Scott Haas is back from a cow pasture in Switzerland where he discovered what makes Swiss milk so special, and Joey Green, author of Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz, gives us reasons to stock up on the stuff.
March 30: Chef's Night Out | Listen
We're traveling and dining out all over the map this week. Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page, authors of Chef's Night Out, reveal where America's top chefs eat when they have a night off. One goes looking for a hot dog with a "caviar crunch," while another wants a better meal in a Chinese restaurant and knows how to get it. Take along the chefs' "Bests" List the next time you travel. From sushi to hamburgers, oysters to pizza, you'll be guaranteed good eating.
Jane and Michael Stern report from Milwaukee, where they've had a vanilla ecstasy experience at Kopp's Custard. For good old-fashioned soft-serve at home, give the Sterns' recipe for Abandon Ship Ice Cream a try.
Food and travel writer Anya Von Bremsen, author of Please to the Table, takes us to Copenhagen, a city she says is now the hottest place in the world for design—and some wonderfully innovative food, too. She tells us where to find it.
Erika Warmbrunn, author of Where the Pavement Ends, rode a bicycle from Russia to Vietnam, a journey that took eight months. She'll share some things she learned about hospitality from the Mongolian nomads she met along the way. Steve Jenkins introduces us to the flavorful cultured butter he loves. And Lynne's trivia question has something to do with her favorite classic Jewish delicatessen.
Featured clip: Steve Jenkins on Cultured Butter
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