The Splendid Table is a weekly radio program about food hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper.

It is produced and distributed by American Public Media and airs weekends nationwide on public radio stations.

It provides listeners with information on food preparation, appreciation, and culture.

The program features travel-related material on restaurants and cuisine from around the country and the world, and also features talk segments in which Kasper takes calls from listeners with food-related questions.

Guests vary from week to week, but every show includes a segment with food writers Jane and Michael Stern.

The program's tagline is "the radio show for people who love to eat".

Culture can be defined in numerous ways.

In the words of anthropologist E.B. Tylor, it is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Alternatively, in a contemporary variant, "Culture is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses and material expressions, which, over time, express the continuities and discontinuities of social meaning of a life held in common.".

The term lifestyle can denote the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.

Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.

Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.

Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat.

Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends.

The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has.

Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants and other food establishments.

Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, such as in ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.