Welcome to our 60th episode. On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land kills slugs with abandon and a little iron sulfate, Amenia horse expert Cari Swanson teaches us how to talk to the animals, Alex Tuller has a summer greens fiesta, Dean Temple reads the Marie Howe poem The Copper Beech, [...]
(As prepared and discussed by Alex Tuller on the June 29, 2006 Podcast)
Sauteed greens are the thing of the day. I know last year Leslie told us all about Lambs quarters, but this year, I’m cooking greens of all varieties and we’re mixing them up. So for instance last week we stripped the green from [...]
American Life in Poetry: Column 066
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Some of the most telling poetry being written in our country today has to do with
the smallest and briefest of pleasures. Here Marie Howe of New York captures a
magical moment: sitting in the shelter of a leafy tree with the rain falling all
around.
The Copper [...]
On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land tells us a happy tale about gardening in the woods and Spicebush, Amenia horse expert Cari Swanson invites 30 boys under the age of 10 to her farm to see the horses, Alex Tuller dances with Pavlova and we get stood up by creme [...]
(As discussed and prepared by Alex Tuller for the June 22, 2006 podcast)
I knew nothing about this dessert until one day we were watching the style channel and Nigella Lawson made one. I remember it most because they had one of her kids just standing on a chair next to the enormous dessert with a [...]
American Life in Poetry: Column 065
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
Visiting a familiar and once dear place after a long absence can knock the words right out of us, and in this poem, Keith Althaus of Massachusetts observes this happening to someone else. I like the way he suggests, at the end, that it [...]
On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land considers the tent caterpiller and smoosh vs. burn, Amenia horse expert Cari Swanson juggles the largest orbs in the animal kingdom – the horse’s eye, Alex Tuller forgoes French because she can’t resist fresh mushrooms and pancetta, Dean Temple reads a Tennyson Sonnet just [...]
(As touted and prepared by Alex Tuller for the June 15, 2006 podcast)
The mushrooms are in and they are good! The thyme is also in. I use the fresh local mushrooms, nothing particularly special about them except that they are really good at this time of year.
For serving two people
One large handful of mushrooms, sliced, [...]
Sonnet
She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood,
And in her hand the drooping pheasant bare,
And by his feet she held the woolly hare,
And like a master painting where she stood,
Looked some new goddess of an English wood.
Nor could I find an imperfection there,
Nor blame the wanton act that showed so fair–
To me whatever freak she [...]
On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land revisits the peony and reconsiders its relationship with the ant, Amenia horse expert Cari Swanson teaches adult novice riders to crawl (ride) before they run (buy), Alex Tuller grills lamb chops indoors, Dean Temple reads David Tucker’s “The Dancer,” and we have [...]