841: Celebrating 30 Years: Live from St. Paul!
1/16/20261 hr 5 min
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This week, it's the final show of our 30th anniversary celebration, recorded from the stage of The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN, where it all began. Francis is joined onstage by some of the best chefs in Minnesota, including American Oglala Lakota Sioux chef, Sean Sherman, Somali-American chef, Jamal Hashi, Karyn Tomlinson of Myriel the winner of the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Midwest and 6-time James Beard Nominee, Diana Moua of Diane's Place to talk about their culinary journeys and the importance of community and culture in food. We’re then joined on stage by a very special guest, Lynne Rossetto Kasper.
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Broadcast dates for this episode:
January 16, 2026 (originally aired)
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Speaker 10:29
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Francis Lam· Host0:55
[upbeat music] I'm Francis Lam, and this is The Splendid Table from APM. So throughout twenty twenty-five, our show traveled the country doing live events to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of The Splendid Table, but we saved our hometown, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, for last. So on December fifth, just days away from our birthday, we pulled back up to the place that