Today we are learning how to build a curry with award-winning teacher Raghavan Iyer author of 660 Curries. Jane and Michael Stern have found pecan pie worth the trip at the Texas Pie Company in Kyle, TX. Wine wit Joshua Wesson brings us wines for the picnic basket and we look the misunderstandings behind MSG with The New York Times' Julia Moskin.

We are looking at the foods of the Philippine's this week with Amy Besa, author of Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near. Jane and Michael Stern are at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville, TN and Sally Schneider author of the award-winning The Improvisational Cook gives us a cooking lesson for spring.

We're looking at the education of a wine rookie with Lettie Teague and her student, movie critic Peter Travers. Lettie is the author of Educating Peter. Jane and Michael Stern are in the Mississippi Delta at Rhoda's Famous Hot Tamales and we look at the advent of a new dining trend, one-pot meals served in private homes.

This week we're taking you on a road trip, specifically a wine trip to the Galicia region of Spain. It was one week, one bus, four wine geeks and The Splendid Table. Galicia and it's neighboring area of Bierzo are up and comers in the wine world, and this trip sure explained why.

This week we've a love letter to the island of Oahu. Honolulu may be the most overlooked food city in the world where we'll meet some of the people shaping that unique island cuisine.

It's part 2 of our special record in Italy. Lynne takes us to Emilia-Romagna. This week we begin the tour in Ferrara where the renaissance still rules, and take an unusual look at Emilia-Romagna's crown jewel. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

This week we're re-visiting our show recorded in Lynne's beloved Emilia-Romagna. This is the region of Italy that Italians consider their culinary jewel, the land of prosciutto and Parmigiano-Reggiano.

This week author John Hailman looks Thomas Jefferson through a unique lens, as a man whose lifelong campaign was to steer the American public away from hard liquor and into the vineyard. He is the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine. Jane and Michael Stern are eating classic San Francisco fare at Sam's Grill, and our opinionated cheese monger Steve Jenkins teaches us how to get out of our cheese rut!

We are looking at how the miraculous omega-3 fatty acids are disappearing from our Western diet with Susan Allport, author of The Queen of Fats. Jane and Michael Stern are at Skylight Inn BBQ in Ayden, NC and Russ Parsons, author of How to Pick a Peach turns his expertise to spring's fresh peas and fava beans.

This week we're looking a the surprising political power of the banana with Dan Koeppel author of Banana: the Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. Jane and Michael Stern are eating first rate Mexican food in the sugar beet belt at Rosita's in Scottsbluff, NE, and Sally Schneider author of The Improvisational Cook introduces us to the savory side of lemons.