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Here’s the thing about food: It can take you anywhere – in your tastes, in your head, and in your imagination. What I love about food is that you will never know it all.

Take right now – we live in a time when food has never been so fascinating, so confounding, so ridiculous, so threatening, or, in some cases, so very good.

We follow these threads and lot more every week on our radio show, The Splendid Table® produced by American Public Media. I’m the host and co-creator of the show.

Even after fifteen years on the air, every episode is a new adventure. What we can do with two hands and some heat still enthralls. How food opens up all the different facets of our world still challenges. The fact that food actually becomes part of our beings, of who we are, still confounds. And the sheer fun of learning is still fresh.

American Public Media’s The Splendid Table® is heard weekly on public radio stations across the country. Go to splendidtable.org for more information.

Blog Entries by The Splendid Table

Baking Green Tomato Tarts

(0) Comments | Posted September 28, 2012 | 11:16 AM

The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

I am in love with a green tomato tart and it is driving me nuts. It is the season to try it again.

Two years ago I ate this dessert tart of...

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What To Do With Lemon Basil

(0) Comments | Posted August 31, 2012 | 2:55 PM

THE SPLENDID TABLE'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Host, The Splendid Table®, American Public Media's national food show and co-author of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions, and the new How to Eat Weekends. Ask questions...

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Use For White Coconut

(0) Comments | Posted August 14, 2012 | 6:48 PM

THE SPLENDID TABLE'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Host, The Splendid Table®, American Public Media's national food show and co-author of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions, and the new How to Eat Weekends. Ask questions and find...

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Easy Hot Sauce For 4th Of July Celebrations

(0) Comments | Posted July 2, 2012 | 6:33 PM

THE SPLENDID TABLE'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Host, The Splendid Table®, American Public Media's national food show and co-author of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions and the new How to Eat Weekends. Ask questions...

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How To Buy A Melon

(3) Comments | Posted June 26, 2012 | 5:58 PM

THE SPLENDID TABLE'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Host, The Splendid Table®, American Public Media's national food show and co-author of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions, and the new How to Eat Weekends. Ask questions...

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Utilize Those Radish Tops

(3) Comments | Posted June 15, 2012 | 5:54 PM

THE SPLENDID TABLE'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Host, The Splendid Table®, American Public Media's national food show and co-author of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions and the new How to Eat Weekends. Ask questions and find...

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Liquid Mozzarella & What To Do With It

(3) Comments | Posted June 8, 2012 | 5:58 PM

THE SPLENDID TABLE'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Host, The Splendid Table®, American Public Media's national food show and co-author of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions and the new How to Eat Weekends. Ask questions and find...

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Tips For Freezing Meals

(1) Comments | Posted June 4, 2012 | 5:13 PM

THE SPLENDID TABLE'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Host, The Splendid Table®, American Public Media's national food show and co-author of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions, and the new How to Eat Weekends. Ask questions and find...

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Sautéing Shrimp

(1) Comments | Posted May 29, 2012 | 10:49 AM

THE SPLENDID TABLE®'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Host, The Splendid Table, American Public Media's national food show and co-author of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions, and the new How to Eat Weekends. Ask questions and find...

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What's The Secret To Fruit In Cake Batter?

(4) Comments | Posted May 18, 2012 | 9:40 AM

The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

My fruit sinks to the bottom whenever I add it to cake batter. It never looks like the picture. I must be missing something in the recipe. What am I doing wrong?

Lyle in Pittsburgh

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Toasting Etiquette

(12) Comments | Posted April 30, 2012 | 9:29 AM

The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper.

Dear Lynne,

Should you drink if you are being toasted? When my mother toasted our engagement, I said "thank you" by raising my glass and sipping. My fiancé didn't drink. Instead, he stood up and thanked her. He claims...

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A Good Knife Starter Set

(15) Comments | Posted April 20, 2012 | 9:24 AM

The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

I need a starter set of good knives for my blossoming 17-year-old chef. She dreams of having her very own. Your help figuring this out would be welcome because I am seeing single knives for $15...

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A Marinade Timing Guide

(7) Comments | Posted April 2, 2012 | 9:15 AM

The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

How long should I marinate things? Some recipes say only, "marinate," with no time frame. Obviously a big roast has to marinate longer than a fish filet, but how much time is too long, or too...

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What's The Sweet In That French Onion?

(0) Comments | Posted March 26, 2012 | 9:52 AM

The Splendid Table®'s How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Hi Lynne,

I ate out last night and ordered French Onion Soup, something I haven't had in ages. It was delicious but a bit sweet and I am wondering what makes it that way. I have looked at...

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Make Your Own Lemon Curd

(1) Comments | Posted March 16, 2012 | 12:06 PM

The Splendid Table®'s How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper


Dear Lynne,

How do you create a stupendous lemon curd? Are you supposed to cook it in a saucepan or in a bowl over boiling water? A chef on TV did it in a saucepan. When...

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A Basic Recipe For Winter Greens

(1) Comments | Posted February 29, 2012 | 8:16 AM

The Spendid Table's How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

This is an odd season to do it, but I am a frozen-to-fresh vegetable convert. I like things in butter sauce, but don't want the fat, and want to eat greens. Can you walk...

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What's Exciting About Cabbage?

(4) Comments | Posted February 17, 2012 | 10:49 AM

THE SPLENDID TABLE®'S HOW TO EAT SUPPER
By Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

What's exciting about cabbage? Cheap though it may be, it seems like a lot of work to make anything worth eating.

Ben from Topeka

Dear Ben,

This cabbage recipe is not...

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How To Clean Dried Mushrooms

(0) Comments | Posted February 10, 2012 | 12:36 PM

The Splendidi Table®'s How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

How do you get the grit out of dried mushrooms? Even after soaking and straining, my super expensive porcini sauce tasted like it had been through a sand storm.

Tommi in Chapel Hill

...

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Vegetable's Secret Message For Lovers?

(1) Comments | Posted February 7, 2012 | 2:08 PM

The Splendid Table®'s How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

Is there any truth to the tale that vegetables have secret messages for lovers? I heard you said something on your show about this. Could it change my bummed out love life? Please...

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Gelato Explained

(25) Comments | Posted January 23, 2012 | 10:07 AM

The Splendid Table®'s How To Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Dear Lynne,

Is the only difference between gelato and ice cream in the language you speak and the higher price for an Italian word?

Jill from Addison

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Dear Jill:

Granted, say it in Italian...

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