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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

Historian Michael Kammen tells Anne Strainchamps that the social distinctions between high-brow and low-brow culture are not as important as they once were.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paula Wolfert tells Steve Paulson why good food is worth slowing down for, and talks about some of her favorite recipes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philip Ball tells Anne Strainchamps that artists had to be chemists for centuries and that often the paintings we see now look nothing like the originals.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Karen Russell talks about her debut novel, "Swamplandia!," which focuses on a family-operated gator wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades.

Karen Russell's "Swamplandia!" page on Random House's website

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Judy Pascoe tells Steve Paulson about her novel “Our Father Who Art in a Tree.”  A young girl’s father dies unexpectedly, but she finds his spirit lives in the backyard tree.

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You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!

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Charles R. Cross talks about his book, "Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain."

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