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

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

Food, Sex, and Foraging

Aug 28, 2004

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This week it's food and the sexes. Naturalist Susan Allport, author of Primal Feast , examines how gender shapes food behavior for humans and other animals. It's an interesting take on food, foraging, and sex in the animal world. The Sterns are into Hot Truck, a deeply local specialty of Ithaca, New York. Wine maverick Josh Wesson has advice for wines to drink with sweet corn. Dorie Greenspan checks out the best gadgets for saving leftover wine. We'll hear the story of a local hero and his giant tomato, and Dave Hirschkop, author of Crazy from the Heat , tells us about his chili sauce creation that was so hot it was banned from the fiery food show. It's tomato season, the time of year…