PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
The pretzel, known as a “Brezel” or “Brezn” in German, is not an ordinary pastry. It has a century-old history full of myths and stories. Where did...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 33:17
- Purchases: 2
If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, a...
Bought by WMMT, KVLU, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 28:42
- Purchases: 3
Imagine this: deep in the Louisiana wetlands, a wooden platform the size of three football fields, covered in shrimp, drying in the sun… which are ...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 25:44
- Purchases: 1
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 01:14
Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: :48
- Purchases: 1
Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old.
Ortiz started cooki...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 1
Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 2
Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 2
The Silver Grill - a "Meat and Three" restaurant closes for good
- Added: Feb 25, 2008
- Length: 03:37