Patricia Volk recalls growing up in a New York restaurant family. She describes the cuisine at the family’s eateries, and what they ate at home.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Dan Fagin just won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, “Toms River.” It’s a remarkable nonfiction tale of industrial pollution and its health impacts for people in a small New Jersey town.
Journalist Neil Strauss tells Steve Paulson about the two years he spent with a group of pick up artists - men who share techniques about how to charm women.
Jason Roberts tells Anne Strainchamps about James Holman, who traveled all over the world in the nineteenth century and wrote travel books, despite being blind.
Penny Von Eschen tells Steve Paulson about the State Department's use of jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World.
Jeremy Seifert fed his family on pickings from the local dumpsters in Los Angeles California. The adventure awakened him to the immense waste of food going on in America every day. The result is his documentary "Dive!" which tackles food waste in our throw-away culture.
Linda Kohanov tells Anne Strainchamps horses can mirror the authentic feeling of their riders and help people process what’s going on under their social mask.
So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex.
Sometimes, it's also about love.
So now for an even larger question: what the heck is love?
Psyhchologist Barbara Fredrickson's says love is more brief - and more available - than we think it is.
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