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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.
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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Food & Drink

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Speak Easy
Health

Put down that hot dog! It’s World Vegan Day

I should be a vegan. So should you. It’s better for your health, and better for the planet. And its kinder to animals too. So what’s ...

10 years ago

chocolate chip cookies
Radio Times

The science behind baking the perfect chocolate chip cookie

Guests: Peter Scarola and Rosemary Trout From crispy and crunchy, to chewy and soft, we’ll talk about the scien ...

Air Date: September 26, 2016

Listen 00:48:46
Seeds on Ice
Radio Times

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault; the judge retirement age ballot question in Pa.

Guests: Cary Fowler, Daniel Craig On the frozen Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, near the North Pole, sits the ...

Air Date: September 22, 2016

Listen 00:48:45
Lifestyle

Feeding the team: behind the line at Eagles’ headquarters [video]

For Eagles fans looking forward to this Sunday’s season opener, the focus will be on the players, the coaches, and the game. But what t ...

10 years ago

Radio Times

Starting a business from scratch: the joys and the headaches

Guests: Tayyib Smith, Siddiq Moore, Tiffany Spraggins Payne These days you don’t have to go to business school ...

Air Date: September 2, 2016

Listen 00:48:47
The author recreates the 'authentic Chinese dinner' experience from almost 60 years ago. (Annabel Liu
Speak Easy
Lifestyle

When the chef is better off ordering Chinese take-out

When Mrs. Smithson asked me to cook them "an authentic Chinese dinner," I couldn't say no. How could I tell them that I was almost 23 but had never learned to boil water?

10 years ago

hospital food
Radio Times

Hospital food: Gross or…absolutely delicious?

Guests: Stuart Fine, Ryan Conklin, Stacia Clinton A congealed cup of mashed potatoes, a rubbery bologna sandwich ...

Air Date: August 22, 2016

Listen 00:48:45
The concoctions inside these bottles are too potent to be gulped from a glass. (Joel Wolfram/for The Pulse)
The Pulse
Science

What’s really behind our love of spicy food?

At a stylish shop in Brooklyn, a different kind of ‘sommelier’ guides tastings from a row of small bottles lined up on the co ...

10 years ago

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Coffee house
Radio Times

Coffee Shop Culture

Guests: Markman Ellis, Myka Fox, Jaime Fountaine It seems there was a time in America when gas station coffee, or ...

Air Date: August 10, 2016

Listen 00:48:46
Garbage
Radio Times

Food Waste

Guests: Emily Broad Leib, Dana Gunders, Sherri Brooks Vinton Forty percent of the food produced in America goes u ...

Air Date: August 1, 2016

Listen 00:48:46
The logo on the door at Ranstead Room is one of the only signs that there's something going on inside this back-alley joint (Marilyn D'Angelo/WHYY)
Lifestyle

Basements, back-rooms, and off the beaten path places for a craft cocktail during the DNC

During the week of the Democratic National Convention, most of Philly’s best features won’t be found on a tourist map. So, ...

10 years ago

Hopper
Radio Times

Radio Times in Review: appreciating insects

 Guests: Fran Sorin, Jon Gelhaus, David Rothenberg, Daniella Martin, Paul Rozin Bugs are beginning to show thems ...

Air Date: July 22, 2016

Listen 00:49:43
Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

FringeArts

Produced by Monica Rogozinski The Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts, is a 17-day, city-wide celebration of i ...

10 years ago

Danger message
Radio Times

The new chemical safety law

Guests: Richard Dennison, Joseph Braun A bill overhauling the way we regulate chemicals was signed into law last ...

Air Date: July 6, 2016

Listen 00:48:47
Lifestyle

Dishing DNC: Philly’s food scene through the eyes of our elected officials [videos]

As the nation’s attention turns toward Philadelphia ahead of the 2016 Democratic Convention, we here at Plated thought it would be fitt ...

10 years ago

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