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This week on A Chef's Table...
Ever been down on your luck? How'd you turn it around? On today's show we'll overcome little challenges and even tackle a few big ones. Celebrity Chef Paula Deen recalls her early difficult days starting a business and a new life. Author Liz Gilbert takes us on journey from divorce to an appetite for life. We'll get tips on fixing our baking mistakes; discover fancy recipes from opera librettos; and even take a trip to the race track. Learn how to make a salt-crusted prime rib plus much more!

This week's featured recipes:
Rosemary & Salt Crusted Prime Rib

This week's featured books:

Mrs. Row's Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes by Mollie Cox Bryan

About Professional Baking: The Essentials by Gail Sokol

The Opera Lover's Cookbook by Francine Segan

Black Forest Cuisine by Walter Staib

Paula Deen Celebrates by Paula Deen

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Maureen Petrosky's website

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Lidia Bastianich prepared three meals for Pope Benedict XVI during his recent visit to the United States. Lidia describes this as the pinnacle of her career, something she could never have imagined when she was a young girl immigrating to the United States with the help of Catholic Charities. A Chef's Table Lari Robling called Lidia to find out about this unique experience.
Listen to the interview

www.lidiasitaly.com

E-mail Chef Coleman at chef@whyy.org.

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Check out Lari Robling's book "Endangered Recipes."