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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

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Food & Drink

Fried bologna and eggs is one of the dishes included in The Cash And Carter Family Cookbook. (Courtesy of Sara Broun)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

You can eat like Johnny Cash — thanks to a cookbook from country music’s first family

Carter Cash's cookbook includes everything from his mother June's tomato, red onion and avocado salad to his father Johnny's old iron-pot chili.

8 years ago

A dozen eggs are pasteurized via radio frequency in a prototype machine. Dr. David Geveke, a researcher at the USAD ARS, and Christopher Brunkhorst, a researcher from Princeton University, are working to develop a way to pasteurize eggs via radio frequencies. The project is in its 6th year, they hope to begin introducing it to the market in the next few years. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Community

Recipe calls for radio frequencies to pasteurize eggs

Using radio frequencies to pasteurize eggs makes them safe for use in recipes calling for raw or partially cooked eggs.

8 years ago

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An employee at Grand Traverse Pie Co. in Michigan makes cherry pies. The company has been shipping pies since 1998, when people still had to phone in their orders. (Beryl Striewski/Grand Traverse Pie Co.)
NPR
Community

Mail-order pies: An expensive slice of nostalgia for which many will pay

Making sure that pies get to their final destinations in one piece isn't easy, and it comes with a cost.

8 years ago

Community

Feast of the Seven Fishes means brisk business for Italian Market seafood stalls

The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a Christmas Eve tradition started more than a century ago by Italian-Americans.

8 years ago

For this year's grand prize winner, the judges were impressed by the intricate, working gingerbread gears of the clock inside Santa's workshop. (Kristen Hartke/NPR)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Gingerbread cred: Bakers craft winning edible art down to the last detail

The National Gingerbread House Competition celebrated its 26th year at Asheville, North Carolina's Omni Grove Park Inn.

8 years ago

Mary Thode, of Chittenden, Vt., hand decorates hundreds of cookies every year for Christmas. (Nina Keck/Vermont Public Radio)
NPR
Community

When ‘cookiers’ take holiday cookie decorating to a whole new level

A growing number of creative bakers, known as 'cookiers,' are taking their art to a whole new level this holiday season.

8 years ago

Michael Durand (left), husband of Kitchn Editor-In-Chief Faith Durand, and friend Chris Gardner (right) carve turkey while guests hang out in the Durands' kitchen at a recent party, dirty dishes and all. (Kitchn/Rachel Joy Barehl)
NPR
Lifestyle

Why modern-day guests always gather in the kitchen

Over the last 100 years, this tiny kitchen expanded, to make room for other household members. And become more of a living space.

8 years ago

Nearly 700,000 people living in the five-county Philadelphia region use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits known as food stamps. (Bigstock/Style-Photographs)
Politics & Policy

Trump administration wants to toughen food stamp work requirements

USDA could make it harder for Pa. SNAP recipients to keep year-round benefits

8 years ago

Every summer, downy mildew spreads from Florida northward, adapting to nearly every defense pickle growers have in their arsenals and destroying their crops. (Bernd Settnik/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Scientists are fighting for the stricken pickle against this tricky disease

With failed harvests, fewer growers are taking a chance on cucumbers.

8 years ago

A customer holds a McDonald's Big Mac. The fast-food giant, one of the world's biggest beef buyers, has announced plans to use its might to cut back on antibiotics in its global beef supply. Environmentalists are applauding the commitment. (Christoph Schmidt/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Lots of antibiotics are used in beef production. McDonald’s vows to change this

Environmentalists are applauding the commitment.

8 years ago

The Trump administration is giving schools more flexibility in the meals they serve. Critics say the rollback on school lunch rules is bad for kids' health. (Mary Esch/AP)
NPR
Health

More salt, fewer whole grains: USDA eases school lunch nutrition rules

School lunches are healthier than they were five years ago. But Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says schools need more flexibility in serving meals that kids will eat.

8 years ago

In this Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, Brian Wansink speaks during an interview in the produce section of a supermarket in Ithaca, N.Y. On Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, the prominent food researcher is defending his work a day after Cornell University said he engaged in academic misconduct and was removed from all teaching and research positions. (Mike Groll/AP Photo)
Science

Study that took aim at ‘Joy of Cooking’ is retracted

More work by a prominent food researcher has been retracted because of problems with the data.

8 years ago

Philabundance volunteers fill bags and boxes with fresh produce during a free farmers market at Lillian Marrero Library in Philadelphia's Fairhill neighborhood, March 14, 2018. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health
Broke in Philly

Drexel research links racism and hunger

People who experience discrimination firsthand struggle with hunger twice as often as others.

8 years ago

Listen 1:31
People have enjoyed seltzer and other sparkling drinks for decades. Some of the bottles at the Brooklyn Seltzer Boys go back to the 1950s. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Why we like sparkling water: The science behind the fizz

Bubbly water purveyors say “a good seltzer should hurt.” The acidity in carbonated drinks lights up the pain receptors in nerve endings — in a way that pleases the tongue.

8 years ago

A commercial scallop fishing boat enters the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant, N.J.  (Wayne Parry/AP Photo, File)
Down the Shore
Health

Movement grows to establish seafood ‘gleaning’ program in N.J.

The Cape May County Board of Freeholders is the latest legislative body to support a program that would allow the New Jersey fishing indu ...

8 years ago

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