PRX - Pieces for Format: Soft Feature

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

34 results


Zella's Red Fire
From: Beandrea July
Caption: Source: LA Times
CATALINA ISLAND, CA—Meet the Meals on Wheels Volunteer who makes sure people in need get fed all over the small island of the coast of Long Beach, ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
Defending the Hot Dog
From: Jason Kladiva
Series: World Pieces
Piece image
World Pieces host Jason Kladiva celebrates National Hot Dog Day with memories of dogs around the world and a few questions for Karen Maria about Ic...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 06:54
Makers Series 1: SOMA Chocolatemaker
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
Piece image
SOMA Chocolatemaker was founded in 2003 by David Castellan and Cynthia Leung and is based in Toronto, Canada. The company has since grown to two st...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 37:48
Fufu
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: pounding fufu in Kante, Togo
In the small West African nation of Togo, a typical meal consists of one of two staple foods: pâte (pronounced like “pot”), made from corn flour an...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
The Middle East in Music City (Gravy Ep. 39)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: The Azadi Market in Nashville's Little Kurdistan. , Credit: Photo by Ava Lowery.
The pride of Nashville: honky tonks and… Halal lamb? The area of the city known as Little Kurdistan contains a whole culinary universe that many pe...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 2
Dinner at the Patel Motel (Gravy Ep. 33)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Vimal Patel cooks inside -- and outside -- a room in the Day's Inn he operates in North Charleston. , Credit: Photo by Wade Spees for the Post & Courier.
We stay at them around the South and across the United States: Day’s Inn. Best Western. Quality Inn. But there is a food world behind the scenes at...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 2
Fairy Food: The Little People's Potato
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: neighborhood-harvested "fairy" potatoes, Credit: Carla Seidl
A fairy potato treasure hunt incorporating elements of Cherokee, Celtic, and Chinese folklore and a bit o' magic.

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Cape's Hidden Jamaica
From: Jimmy Gutierrez
Piece image
Imagine trying to cook without the conveniences of electricity, running water, or a stove. Growing up in Jamaica, that’s exactly how Glenroy Solomo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 3
Last Best Stories: Episode 2
From: Jule Banville
Series: Last Best Stories
Piece image
Goats + Dumplings comes in at 13:28. It's the second episode of a new podcast, Last Best Stories. The first, longer feature (8:30) looks at how mou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 13:29
Jobs Made in France: Cheese aeger
From: Sarah Elzas
Series: Jobs Made in France
Caption: Emmanuel Carbonne (L) and Christophe Lesoin (R) in their cheese maturing cellar, Credit: fromagerie-beaufils.com
What’s more French than cheese? Some French cheese shops have a 'cave d’affinage', a maturing cellar, so their cheeses ripen in the best possible c...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
55: Restaurant Sound Design
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Piece image
Clark Wolf has consulted to restaurants, hotels, and just about every type of venue where people gather to enjoy food. Part of his job is to think ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WABE, PRX Remix, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 4
Postcard from a Cidery
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Piece image
Anywhere apples are grown there's a decent chance you might find a cidery nearby. Lydia Wilson found one in Albemarle County, Virginia, and created...

Bought by KENW, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KKRN


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 5
Chef Vivian Howard
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Chef Vivian Howard, Credit: Tanner Latham
Vivian Howard is the chef at Chef and the Farmer in the small Eastern North Carolina town of Kinston. She also "co-stars" with her husband Ben Knig...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Southern Living's Hunter Lewis
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Hunter Lewis, Credit: Tanner Latham
Hunter Lewis is the executive editor at Southern Living magazine. Before that, he had stints at the publications Bon Appetit and Saveur. In this ep...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 23:04
  • Purchases: 1
To Eat a Pig, Pt. 1
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Journalist Sean Kelley, Credit: Tanner Latham
Sean Kelley is a journalist, and in this show, he begins telling us about raising a couple of pigs so that he could slaughter them and eat them and...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:29
  • Purchases: 2
Chef Hugh Acheson
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Chef Hugh Acheson, Credit: Tanner Latham
Athens, Ga.-based Chef Hugh Acheson is one of the most celebrated and influential chefs in the country. The James Beard Award winner and Top Chef s...

Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 14:33
  • Purchases: 3
The Newest New South
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Historian Tom Hanchett at a booth at El Pulgarcito. , Credit: Tanner Latham
Charlotte, North Carolina-based historian Tom Hanchett speaks about the ever-evolving South, especially as it relates to food, from a booth in El P...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 17:54
  • Purchases: 2
Indian Pass Raw Bar
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Jimmy McNeill, owner of the Indian Pass Raw Bar, Credit: Tanner Latham
The Indian Pass Raw Bar is the anchor of the tiny community of Indian Pass in the Florida panhandle. It’s an institution in this part of the world ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 4
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Taste Florence
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: Antoinette Mazzaglia of Taste Florence in the Sant’Ambrogio market describes various salami that her tour group will sample. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Italy, particularly Florence, is a popular vacation destination. They come with an appetite, eager to sample Italy’s renowned cuisine, yet they’re...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 04:32
Slow Wine
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: Salvatore Angelica and Susanna Bianco of Gigi Bianco winery explain their various Slow Wines at a Rome tasting, Credit: Nancy Greenleese
The Slow Food movement has changed how we eat in the last quarter century. The Italian organization encourages us to dine on flavorful and health...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:04
Gelato Museum
From: Nancy Greenleese
Caption: Gelato served from a Carpigiani-made gelato truck at the Bologna fair in 1958, Credit: Gelato Museum
I scream, you scream, we all scream for...gelato. The first museum dedicated to gelato has opened in Italy.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KLCC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 2
Food is Culture--Morocco
From: Jake Warga
Piece image
A culinary tour of Morocco, where food and culture are Inseparable. Piece ends 3min, trailing out music.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 01, 2012
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 2
No Dessert
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: girl eating the Togolese staple food "pâte", Credit: Carla Seidl
Dessert? Some people have never even heard of it. This piece examines the cultural relativity of this sweet, after-meal food practice by contrastin...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
Postcard from The National Cornbread Festival
From: Big Shed Audio
Caption: Shea Shackelford enjoying a barbecue sundae at the 2005 National Cornbread Festival, Credit: Jennifer Deer
"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KTXK, Raven Radio, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 10