The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

We’re heading to India for this week’s Key 3 with Raghavan Iyer, author of the best-selling 660 Curries . Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat , brings the stories from our tabletops. Broadcast dates for this episode: April 27, 2013 (originally aired) April 11, 2014 (rebroadcast)

This week it’s a look at saliva with America’s funniest science writer, Mary Roach, author of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Trail . The Sterns are at the Blue Scorcher Bakery Café in Astoria, Ore., and we learn which salts are really worth the money with salt merchant Mark Bitterman, author of Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral. Broadcast dates for this episode: April 6...

Greg Engert's profiling system divides beer into seven categories. Award-winning writer and cook Deborah Madison is here with the missing puzzle piece for vegetable cooking -- the plants themselves -- with her book  Vegetable Literacy. We turn to the duo from The Perennial Plate, an online documentary series dedicated to socially responsible and adventurous eating. Broadcast dates for this episode...

Jeffrey Hertzberg, the best-selling co-author of The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day,  joins us with the newest take on bread making for the home cook, we look at Muslim-Chinese cuisine with Jason Wang of New York City's Xi'an Famous Foods, we head to Tallahassee, Fla., with the Sterns to Olean's Cafe for first-rate soul food and hear about how vegetarians are taking on the congressional l...

We're talking to Smithsonian paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner about the origins of meat-eating. Food scientist Harold McGee explains the nuances of rice wine vinegar, and we get the lowdown on real Southern cooking in Chicago with Garden & Gun magazine’s Julia Reed. Broadcast dates for this episode: March 9, 2013 (originally aired) February 28, 2014 (rebroadcast)

We're looking at legendary gourmand and politician Winston Churchill with Cita Stelzer, author of Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table . And Jane and Michael Stern join us with tales from eating on the road; this time, it's the Stockholm Pie Company in Stockholm, Wis. Broadcast dates for this episode: February 23, 2013 (originally aired) February 14, 2014 (rebroadcast)

Nigella Lawson joins us this week with her new book Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes . And we meet up with Joe Warwick, who has compiled a guide of chefs' favorite restaurants worldwide, Where Chefs Eat . Broadcast dates for this episode: February 9, 2013 (originally aired) January 31, 2014 (rebroadcast)

This week journalist Anne Applebaum, author of The Polish Country House Kitchen , joins us with tales of food and life in Poland, and we head to Kansas City for an Austrian-Germanic take on the cocktail with the bartender from Grunauer. Broadcast dates for this episode: January 26, 2013 (originally aired) January 17, 2014 (rebroadcast)

We talk with Britain's exuberant gastronaut Stefan Gates about his BBC documentary on bug-eating called Alien Nation. New York City restaurateur Eddie Huang of BaoHaus explains the art of the Asian bun. His memoir is Fresh Off the Boat . And chef Charles Phan of San Francisco’s The Slanted Door gives us a primer on the Vietnamese noodle soup pho. His latest book is Vietnamese Home Cooking . Broadc...

Opinionated cheesemonger Steve Jenkins brings us his annual cheese picks for the holidays. We check in with writer Junot Diaz about the Dominican food of his childhood. He is the author of the award-winning book This Is How You Lose Her . And Sally Schneider of The Improvised Life has inspiring thoughts on making small tables large and beautiful for next to nothing. Broadcast dates for this episod...

This week we talk about eating on the road with rapper and poet Dessa. We head into Lynne's kitchen with comedian Lizz Winstead for another round of The Key 3. Winstead's new collection of essays is Lizz Free or Die. And we talk to Dr. Andrew Weil about what we really should be worrying about when we worry about what we eat. Broadcast dates for this episode: December 8, 2012 (originally aired) Dec...

Amy Sedaris is stopping by with some gift-giving help from her hilarious book  Simple Times: Crafts For Poor People . Jane and Michael Stern are at Hartley's Pork Pies in Fall River, Mass., and Mexican cook Fany Gerson introduces us to the unusual sweets of Mexico with her book My Sweet Mexico . Broadcast dates for this episode: December 11, 2010 (originally aired) December 3, 2011 (rebroadcast) N...

Turkey Confidential is our annual live call-in show. Thanks to our guests: Mario Batali , Pati Jinich , Ted Allen  and Michael Pollan . If you don't see enough Thanksgiving recipes below, here are all of them . Broadcast dates for this episode: November 28, 2013

It’s our get-ready-for-the-big-feast broadcast with best-selling author Mollie Katzen, author of The Heart of the Plate . Mollie takes on the vegetarian feast while Food & Wine’s Ray Isle deals with the wine, Mexican chef Pati Jinich, author of Pati’s Mexican Table, bring us her Mexican way with a turkey (swaddled in banana leaf), and Cheryl Day of Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Ga., cove...

It's our annual get-ready–for-the-feast broadcast with writer and comedian Mo Rocca; journalist Alex Witchel, author of All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother’s Dementia. With Refreshments;  and David Leite, of Leite’s Culinaria, takes on the carving knife. Broadcast dates for this episode: November 17, 2012 (originally aired) November 15, 2013 (rebroadcast)

This week, we meet up with celebrity chef Silvena Rowe, author of Purple Citrus and Sweet Perfume . Jane and Michael Stern have uncovered the West Indies Salad, and fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi plays Stump the Cook. Broadcast dates for this episode: September 3, 2011 (originally aired) September 1, 2012 (rebroadcast) September 27, 2013 (rebroadcast)

This week is a road trip to New Orleans. Guests include Leah Chase of the legendary Dooky Chase's Restaurant; journalist Lolis Eric Elie; WWNO's Poppy Tooker, host of Louisiana Eats!; and mixologist Chris McMillian. Plus, Jane and Michael Stern escort us around the annual Roadfood Festival. Broadcast dates for this episode: September 22, 2012 (originally aired) September 14, 2013 (rebroadcast)

Southern chef Bill Smith, of Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill, joins us for the next installment of The Key 3. Jesse Griffiths helps us examine our relationship with hunting, and we take a look at an unusual find in the wine world: orange wine. Broadcast dates for this episode: September 15, 2012 (originally aired) August 31, 2013 (rebroadcast)

Jay McInerney joins us with his latest wine book, The Juice . Tracie McMillan has gone undercover in the American food industry, and we look at the vegetarian traditions in Morocco with Jeff Koehler. Broadcast dates for this episode: August 25, 2012 (originally aired) August 17, 2013 (rebroadcast)

We celebrate Julia Child's birthday this week, listening to some early Splendid Table interviews with the grand lady. Ted Allen joins us as our celebrity stumpmaster in another round of Stump the Cook, and David Leite returns with a fresh look at a European favorite, Nutella. Chinese chef and scholar Ken Hom gives us a culinary tour of China. Broadcast dates for this episode: August 11, 2012 (orig...

We're back with another episode of our Key 3 series, interviews with chefs and good cooks about the three recipes they think other good cooks should know. This week it's Sally Schneider of The Improvised Life. The Sterns are in Michigan eating boozy cakes made by monks at The Jampot, and John Schlimm has some recipes for the vegan griller. Broadcast dates for this episode: July 28, 2012 (originall...

This week Lynne plays Stump the Cook with chef Mario Batali. Authors Mike Faverman and Pat Mac take on dining in the great outdoors with their book Ultimate Camp Cooking . And Jane and Michael Stern have tracked down the very best in corned beef hash. Broadcast dates for this episode: June 25, 2011 (originally aired) June 2, 2012 (rebroadcast) July 6, 2013 (rebroadcast)

We have another installment in our series The Key 3 , interviews with chefs and good cooks about the three recipes other good cooks should know. This week it's award-winning chef Andrea Reusing of Lantern in Chapel Hill, N.C. Jane and Michael Stern are at The Blue Bonnet Cafe in Marble Falls, Texas, and we hear about the Vietnamese tradition of monthly rice from journalist Claudia Kolker. Broadcas...

Mexican chef Pati Jinich, host of PBS's " Pati's Mexican Table ," joins us with her take on authentic Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Jane and Michael Stern are at Eckl's Beef & Weck in Orchard Park, N.Y. And we talk to food activist and MacArthur Fellow (Genius Award recipient) Will Allen about his book, The Good Food Revolution . Broadcast dates for this episode: May 5, 2012 (originally aired) M...

We meet up with JJ Goode , a culinary ghostwriter, Jane and Michael Stern are back from New Orleans with fresh finds, and we talk to Wine & Spirits  editor Tara Q. Thomas about Greek wines. Broadcast dates for this episode: April 21, 2012 (originally aired) April 20, 2013 (rebroadcast)