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October 2007
October 6 - October 13 - October 20 - October 27
October 6: The Wines of Spain | Listen | Download
This week we're taking you to Spain, to the little known region of Galicia, just north of Portugal. The area may be best known for the pilgrim trail leading to Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of St. James are believed to be interred, but we were there for the wine. This past summer we spent a week on a bus with a group of journalists exploring the area's emerging wine region, and lived to tell you this tale!
October 13: Living in a Foreign Language | Listen | Download
This week it's the story of a man who moved for food (a little dream house in Italy helped.) Actor and writer Michael Tucker joins us for a look at how values shifted, tastes simplified and a family changed because of one impulsive act. Michael's book is Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy.
Jane and Michael Stern report from Well River, Vermont, where the menu is written in French and the fries comes with gravy at the P & H Truck Stop.
That master of culinary improv, Sally Schneider, author of The Improvisational Cook is back talking roasted pears: one recipe, many possibilities.
New York food guy Mike Colameco shares his favorite tapas bars in the Big Apple.
A mortgage crunch and a weak housing market (not to mention environmental worries) has many of us saying no to that sprawling McMansion with the designer dream kitchen. Architect Sarah Susanka, author of the Not-So-Big series of books, has new and economical ways to rework the kitchens we have.
Star chef Tom Douglas has six restaurants, a bakery and a radio show in Seattle. He makes a line of specialty foods and writes cookbooks like Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen and Tom's Big Dinners. This guy is always on the move. When we heard he recently purchased a farm in a small Central Washington town we knew there was a story there. We'll hear about Tom's adventures as a gentleman farmer. We guarantee laughs.
October 20: Café Pasqual | Listen | Download
This week we're off to Santa Fe for a visit at a destination restaurant that never lost its heart. After 20 years Café Pasqual still shines, the food is still dynamite, and the service is still a hoot. Our guide is the woman who makes it all happen: restaurateur Katharine Kagel. She shares a seasonal recipe—Sugar Pumpkins Filled with Vegetable Stew in Chipotle Cream Sauce—from her book, Cooking with Café Pasqual's: Recipes from Santa Fe's Renowned Corner Café.
It's Code 10 Chili at Noon Break in Cody, Wyoming for our road food duo, Jane and Michael Stern.
Anya Von Bremzen, author of The New Spanish Table, has the scoop on the mother of all paprikas: Spain's smoky-rich pimenton. Anya's recipe for Smokey Mashed Potatoes from Extremadura highlights this luxurious spice.
Commentator Julie Hauserman tells how Florida has finally put her tax dollars to work—in the kitchen.
Beer historian Alan Eames, author of The Secret Life of Beer, claims the Halloween witch was a beauty, a healer, and she made beer. What a gal! Alan tells all.
We have the story of pasta, Holy Communion and the eye of artist Lisa Venditelli, and Lynne brings us her Short Apple Cooking Guide.
October 27: Hooked | Listen | Download
This week it's the story of an illegal fish and two ships stalking each other in the waters off Antarctica. Our guest, Bruce Knecht, author of Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish, shares the saga of one of the longest and most dangerous sea chases in history.
Jane and Michael Stern tuck into corned beef sandwiches of iconic proportions at Jake's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Food & Wine magazine's senior editor Ray Isle wants us to stash the Margarita mix and rinse out the good glasses because he's bringing us the latest status tequilas—the ones you drink straight up.
Scholarly hedonist Fred Plotkin has us eating and sipping our way through Santiago, Chile, and then it's another round of Stump the Cook with Stumpmaster Christopher Kimball.
Are we ready for wines with names like Fat Bastard, Hair of the Dingo, White Trash White and The Laughing Magpie? Peter May, author of Marilyn Merlot and the Naked Grape, celebrates unusual wines from around the globe.
As always, Lynne takes your calls and shares a recipe for Tabasco Tequila Steak to go with one of Ray Isle's chic sipping picks.
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