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From street food in Thailand to a bakery in a Syrian refugee camp to how one scientist uses state of the art pollen analysis to track the origins of honey (and also to solve cold murder cases), Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio goes anywhere and everywhere to ask questions and get answers about cooking, food, culture, wine, farming, restaurants, literature, and the lives and cultures of the people who grow, produce, and create the food we eat.
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From street food in Thailand to a bakery in a Syrian refugee camp to how one scientist uses state of the art pollen analysis to track the origins of honey (and also to solve cold murder cases), Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio goes anywhere and everywhere to ask questions and get answers about cooking, food, culture, wine, farming, restaurants, literature, and the lives and cultures of the people who grow, produce, and create the food we eat.

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Humans would do better to accept many of the life forms that share our space, than to scrub them all away, says ecologist Rob Dunn. (Basic Books)
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Counting the bugs and bacteria, you’re ‘never home alone’ — and that’s OK

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Marvel of a man: Stan Lee dead at 95

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Collectible trade cards were part of the advertising that catapulted Hires root beer to national prominence. (Boston Public Library)
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Root beer’s Philadelphia roots

The concoction of sarsaparilla, sassafras, wild cherry, wintergreen, and ginger has been saluted as one of the country's first convenience foods.

7 years ago

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Leah Penniman made it her goal to start a farm for her neighbors, and to provide fresh food to refugees, immigrants and people affected by mass incarceration. (Jamel Mosely/NPR)
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‘Farming while black’: A guide to finding power and dignity through food

Penniman and her staff at Soul Fire Farm train black and Latinx farmers in growing techniques and management practices from the African diaspora.

7 years ago

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Princeton’s comic book exhibit spotlights superheroes of civil rights movement

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King Jr. to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, comics illustrate the fight for equality.

7 years ago

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Carla Hall has a new book that explores her heritage and attempts to bring soul food to a wider audience. She embarked on a long journey through the South to investigate and get inspiration, and the story is a deep look into her philosophy. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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In soul food cookbook, chef Carla Hall celebrates black culinary heritage

Carla Hall grew up eating soul food since before she could speak.

7 years ago

Wizards for a day (from left) Charlene Delos Santos, Harley Birkmire, and Joe Birkmire, show off their attire on Germantown Avenue at the Chestnut Hill Witches and Wizards Festival. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
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Harry who? Chestnut Hill Witches and Wizards fest carries on without its famous namesake

Chestnut Hill's popular fall festival celebrating the world of Harry Potter lost its name, but not its following.

7 years ago

Walt Maguire adjusts his glasses in his bathroom mirror on October 20, 2017. Maguire, 60, played the part of Dumbledore at Chestnut Hill’s Harry Potter Festival for six years. Now, he is co-hosting the Witches and Wizards festival costume contest. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
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A wizard who must not be named reflects on his years as Hogwarts headmaster

For Walt Maguire, dressing as the festival’s Dumbledore was a serious endeavor — one that required him to begin his preparation at 5 a.m.

7 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Now read this: ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’

The Free Library of Philadelphia has selected Jesmyn Ward's "Sing, Unburied, Sing" for next year's One Book, One Philadelphia reading program.

7 years ago

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Casey Gerald’s “There Will Be No Miracles”

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Air Date: October 8, 2018 10:00 am

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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre. (Cameron Pollack/NPR)
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How the Myers-Briggs personality test began in a mother’s living room lab

Briggs was just 14 years old when she went to college, and ended up graduating first in her class.

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Gary Shteyngart and lessons from the recession

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Air Date: September 17, 2018 10:00 am

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Jose Antonio Vargas, pictured at a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016, has written a memoir of his life as an undocumented immigrant in Dear America. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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‘Dear America,’ writes a Pulitzer-winning journalist — and undocumented immigrant

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