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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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A gun lies on the ground inside a police barricade following a shooting at a Kroger grocery that left two people dead and a suspect in custody, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, in Jeffersontown, Ky.  A male suspect fatally shot a man and a woman at a Kroger grocery store on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, and then exchanged fire with an armed bystander before fleeing the scene, police said. He was captured shortly afterward. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Hate dies in the light of exposure

This weekend, when I learned that someone had walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people, I thought of my Jewish friend, Susan Jacobs.

7 years ago

This photo shows some of Stars of David with names of those killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in Saturday's shooting, at a memorial outside the synagogue. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Community

Suspect due in court as harrowing synagogue tales emerge

As Barry Werber walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue, he passed a cart carrying glassware and whiskey meant for the baby-naming ceremony scheduled at Dor Hadash

7 years ago

In the last scheduled voting days of the legislative session, lawmakers sent Governor Tom Wolf dozens of bills for a signature. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Wolf signs 88 end-of-session bills — vetoes four, including Medicaid work requirements

The highest profile veto was a bid to create work requirements for certain Medicaid recipients that Wolf has long opposed.

7 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and Senate Appropriations Chair Pat Browne, both Republicans, tell reporters that the Senate hasn’t been able to produce a version of SB 261 that the House will support. Senate Democrats are now using the bill’s failure to pass as fodder to attack vulnerable members of the Senate GOP Caucus. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Senate Dems are using a stalled sex abuse bill in campaign ads. Will it help them?

The new commercial is running in competitive districts in suburban Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Anti-abortion demonstrators, including Phyllis Schlafly, foreground, rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 1992. The high court upheld most provisions of a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law.
The Why
Courts & Law

Deja Roe

A Pennsylvania case that got to the Supreme Court in 1992 could have spelled the end for Roe vs. Wade.

Air Date: October 29, 2018

Listen 14:19
State Rep. Tina Davis, a Democrat, knocks on doors in Bucks County in her attempt to win Pennsylvania's 6th Senatorial District. (Jim Saksa/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Even if a blue wave hits, Republican lawmakers favored to keep control in Harrisburg

No neutral observer thinks Democrats can retake either chamber of the state legislature this year.

7 years ago

Listen 4:44
Like several of his GOP colleagues in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Bucks, is trying to maintain some distance from President Donald Trump. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philly-area GOP congressmen trying to keep distance from President Trump

While one prominent U.S. representative from South Jersey is running on the Trump record, most of the GOP members of Congress are distancing themselves from the president.

7 years ago

Listen 5:18
People stand on the stairs of Sixth Presbyterian Church as the crowd spills up the hill and down the street for a vigil blocks from where an active shooter shot multiple people at Tree of Life Congregation synagogue on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting ID’ed, including brothers, married couple

Officials released the names of all 11 victims during a news conference Sunday, all of them middle-aged or elderly.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania doesn't allow early voting — but it does let voters send in absentee ballots as long as they have a good reason for needing one. (John Minchillo/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

So far, Pa.’s absentee ballot returns point to high-turnout midterm

The DOS said as of Friday, the total number of absentee ballots requested is approaching 200,000.

7 years ago

The Pennsylvania Youth Congress offices on Walnut St. in Harrisburg. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Harrisburg looks to condemn — but not-ban — conversion therapy

It's the latest Pennsylvania city to address conversion therapy — but it's not going as far as others.

7 years ago

Hundreds of Philadelphians stand in solidarity with the Pittsburgh Jewish community during a vigil at Rittenhouse Square, on Saturday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Hundreds hold vigil in Philadelphia for synagogue shooting victims

A few hundred people held a candlelight vigil in Rittenhouse Square to mourn those killed in Pittsburgh Saturday.

7 years ago

People gather on a corner near the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa., where a shooter opened fire Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, injuring multiple people. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

11 killed, 6 injured in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; FBI investigating as hate crime

A law enforcement official has identified the suspect in a shooting Saturday at a Pittsburgh synagogue as Robert Bowers.

7 years ago

Families affected by pre-existing conditions attend a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pre-existing conditions shape election debate over health care

Republican U.S. Representative Scott Perry took to Facebook Live last Thursday to talk pre-existing conditions.

7 years ago

Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, at the Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

EPA head says rollbacks will keep environment clean, economy up

Wheeler: Fed action not needed to lower CO2

7 years ago

Voting machines at the Office of the City Commissioner's warehouse (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pa., N.J., and Del. upgrading voting machines — not in time for midterms

The three states use electronic voting machines that can be hacked, and don’t have a paper trail to facilitate vote audits.

7 years ago

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