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What's the oddest - or most delicious - translation of traditional food that you've sampled?

LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted – culture. Anne Strainchamps asked him about food in translation.
 
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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jazz performer Esperanza Spalding shares what a lifetime of improvising has taught her about reconciliation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carolyn McVickar Edwards reads “The Golden Earrings.” It’s one of the stories in her book “The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from around the World for the Winter Solstice.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Benjamin Kilham rehabilitates and studies wild black bears. Steve Paulson spent a day with him as he visited a mother bear and two cubs that he’s keeping an eye on.

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Cheeni Rao came from a successful Indian family and attended an elite American college. But he ended up a junkie on Chicago's South side.

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Sean Penn reads a section of Bob Dylan’s autobiography where Dylan credits George as one of his greatest influences.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Who's the real Barack Obama?  Biographer David Maraniss traveled around the world searching for answers.  He says Obama's life is surrounded in mythology.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Deborah Madison talks with Anne Strainchamps about shopping at farmer’s markets.  She says slowing down for food is one of the best ways to bring pleasure back into your life.

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