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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 

Food is certainly the most palatable expression of culture, and the most easily shared.
 
LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted - culture. In this UNCUT interview, he talks with Anne Strainchamps about food in translation.
 
It'll get your stomach growling, so have some snacks handy!
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For thousands of years, people have been telling stories about magical woods and enchanted forests.  Writer and mythographer Marina Warner talks about the forest in human memory and imagination.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What's it like to hang out with the U.S. president?  Journalist Michael Lewis found out when he shadowed Barack Obama for 8 months, even playing in one of Obama's pick-up basketball games. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

According to psychologist Meagan Curtis, the inherent sadness of the minor third is what we hear in music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We meet Pete Daly, an engineer with recurrent melanoma who talks about living with cancer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house.  So he wrote a song about it!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leslie Klinger tells Jim Fleming about the new edition of the "New Annotated Sherlock Holmes"

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