October 30, 2015
Fake Vegetables
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & EatersAbout this episode
This week we talk to comedian Jim Gaffigan about vegetables. Journalists Jane Black and Brent Cunningham spent 7 months in Huntington, West Virginia, the town whose food system Jamie Oliver tried to remake. Contributor David Leite talks to Andrea Slonecker, author of Pretzel Making at Home , and we visit Thai Park, a market/picnic in a Berlin park that serves authentic Thai food that flies in the face of German code and culture. Broadcast dates for this episode: October 31, 2014 (originally aired) October 30, 2015 (rebroadcast)