This hour, we explore strategies for maximizing our enjoyment of food – all while maintaining our health – with food writer Peter Kaminsky. His book is Culinary Intelligence: The Art of Eating Healthy.
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Potent Potables
We’ll learn about the connection between gardening and gimlets with the author of The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Make the World’s Great Drinks.
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All Cuisines Considered
We’ll look at how civilizations historically have developed their eating habits with University of Texas visiting scholar Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History.
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Portrait Of America
We’ll get to know an artist who captured 20th Century America this hour with Deborah Solomon, whose new book is American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell.
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Attention, Vampires
We’ll explore the cultural symbolism attached to blood this hour with Lawrence Hill, author of the Blood: The Stuff of Life.
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You Gonna Eat That?
We’ll learn this hour about the experimentation happening in avant-garde kitchens from Dana Goodyear. Her new book is Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture
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The Best of JFK
This hour, we’ll listen back to highlights of interviews with guests who’ve joined us this fall to talk about the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination.
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Kennedy Memories
This hour, we’ll look back at Nov. 22, 1963 with North Texans who lived it.
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Energizing Neighborhoods Through Art
This hour, Houston artist Rick Lowe joins us to talk about “social sculpture” and how he’s applying the idea to Dallas’ Vickery Meadow neighborhood.
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Meet The Critic
We’ll spend this hour with cultural critic William Deresiewicz, the recipient of this year’s Hiett Prize, given by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
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Inspecting The Texas Foster Care System
More than 2,000 abused and neglected children live in Dallas County. This hour we’ll learn about how they are cared for and about the obstacles to improved care.
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It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's …
Later this month, Comet ISON should be visible in the night sky. We’ll get tips this hour on how best to see it.
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