Happy President’s Day, everyone.

What’s on tap for today? We’ve had our eye on this one for a while.

American Public Media produces a weekly program called The Splendid Table–“the show for people who love to eat”–which airs here on WBUR each Saturday at 6pm. It’s a gem.

Food writer, cooking teacher and radio personality Lynne Rossetto Kasper has been the host of this Minnesota-based, award-winning show since its beginnings in the mid-90s.

More a conversation about food than a recipe fix, The Splendid Table is a great resource for what’s going on in the culinary world all around the world, plus a peek into the kitchens of ordinary folk and the kinds of thorny problems they’re running into. This latter comprises the call-in section of the program; you ask, Lynne answers. It’s kind of like Car Talk’s ‘what do I do about…?’ without the thigh-slapping humor and Tom’s cackle.

The Splendid Table offers interviews, recipes, features on wine (plus good picks), and a regularly airing segment called “Where We Eat,” in which Jane and Michael Stern report on their drives around the U.S. in search of a class meal and dose of local culture in equal measure. What a great gig! And their state-by-state list of, yes, where to eat is FUN. This week they covered turtle sundaes with *real* whipped cream (none of that canned stuff) in Cincinnati.

You can also find comments on gadgets and handy kitchen tips that run the gamut: how to cook artichokes; what protocol is on returning a bad wine, how to brine a turkey, what to do with accidentally-frozen olive oil…and so it goes.

This past Saturday Lynne covered the food life of Thailand, and then moved on to discuss eels as food source and revered sea creature with author James Prosek. In one of last month’s episodes, she sat down with comedian and author Amy Sedaris for “Stump the Cook,” and Yale Psychology Professor Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like, stopped by to talk about just that — why we like what we like. And then, of course, there was a recipe for Sweet Avocado-Green Chile Ice Cream.

No matter what you take away from the show, The Splendid Table is a treat. It’ll expand your food knowledge and get your creative juices flowing. Podcasts available!

Sarah Minton contributed to this post.