Ken Burns: Roasted Chicken from The Restaurant at Burdick's

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

For the past 50 years, Ken Burns has written, directed and produced historical films on a wide variety of topics, from country music and baseball to the Vietnam War and the Brooklyn Bridge.

His brand-new film investigates the life of Leonardo da Vinci who, very appropriately for this show, painted The Last Supper! So host Rachel Belle consults an Italian archaeologist about what Jesus and the 12 apostles were actually eating in the famous painting.

Over 20 years ago, Burns helped open a restaurant in his small New Hampshire town called The Restaurant at Burdick’s. He claims to be a silent partner, but his name is printed on the brunch, lunch and dinner menus! He'll explain what the Ken Salad is and how it came to be.

Many famous dishes are named after real people, from the Caesar salad to eggs Benedict. We explore the stories behind some of the most well-known eponymous foods, like Granny Smith apples and the Cobb salad.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.6	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:20.2	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.6	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into
0:28.1	the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:32.9	Today on the program, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
0:37.4	Ken has produced and directed over 30 films on
0:40.4	topics ranging from country music, the American Buffalo, baseball, the Brooklyn Bridge,
0:46.3	and the Vietnam War, all distributed by PBS. And he's won 17 Emmy Awards, two Grammy
0:52.4	awards, and snagged two Oscar nominations along the way.
0:56.4	His latest is Leonardo da Vinci,
0:58.8	a two-part series that debuts on PBS,
1:01.4	November 18th and 19th.
1:03.6	But Ken also has sway in the culinary world.
1:06.8	You have a dish named after you, the Ken salad.
1:10.1	The Ken salad.
1:14.1	And it's, you know, kind of embarrassing when you're at the next table and people go,
1:15.6	I think I'm going to get the Ken salad.
1:20.7	And I eat it all the time, particularly when I'm hard at work in the editing room and somebody goes down and gets it and pulls it out for me during work.
1:23.7	Ken's eponymous salad is served at a very special restaurant that he will tell you about in just a bit.
1:30.4	Let's jump right into my conversation with Ken Burns.
1:36.7	Most people in their lives don't have a moment to pinpoint where their life changed or why they decided on the career that they did. But you were very young when
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