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We continue the three-part series A Day in the Life, spotlighting the common chemistry of morning, noon, and night. In this episode, a look at the ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 15:38
This week on Culture Queue, we're offering an early taste of things to be thankful for, including food, health, and great arts and culture reportin...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
By Amy Friedman. Bananas: they're rich in potassium, great for creating some slippery hijinks, and, as a result of fruit magnates like Chiquita, ba...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Ramps, the first edible sign of spring, are popping up throughout the woods of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But this wild cousin of garlic and o...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 03:25
This wraps up our three-part series Blood, Sweat, and Tears. First, how it feels to lose your ability to cry; then why onions bring on the waterworks.
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 15:05
This is the music referred to in http://daveellwand.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/bread-2/ It'll make more sense if you copy the link and paste it in an...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 15:04
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
A new trend is sweeping the infants of our nation with baby tails. A new cocktail tailored just for babies.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 04:14
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 29:41
- Purchases: 1
The story of the late Dr. Robert Baker, famous food scientist at Cornell, who invented the chicken nugget.
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 21:53
- Added: Feb 04, 2012
- Length: 05:05
In this episode, a celebration of meat: segments on an all-natural meat tenderizer, BBQ'ed carcinogens, and the history of steak.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 11:55
- Purchases: 2
My buddy Sean and I decided to embark on a challenge: the ROYGBIV diet - spending a week eating only one color of food per day, according to the co...
Bought by KUT, Vocalo.org, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 08:34
- Purchases: 3
For most home cooks, pulling off a traditional Thanksgiving feast is a tough job. An even tougher job? Replicating a meal fit for a Pilgrim in a ki...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, 'The Sea', WHCP-LP Cambridge, WVTF, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 7
We explore the secret lives of nuclear scientists and learn why these brainiacs are way more interesting than you’d have ever imagined.
Bought by WTJU and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 2
How an Exaggerated Immune Response Gave Me Heaven
- Added: Sep 16, 2011
- Length: 06:40
A Simple Solution to the Ethical Regulation of Slaughter
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 05:21
The 2011 Spring Finale is all about interesting animal encounters, some dangerous, some surprising, and all just a little bit strange. Velda Brothe...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Les Blank, film maker extraordinaire. Les Blank will receive the Albert Maysles award at the 2011 M...
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
One San Francisco-based group is taking the worship of food to a whole new level. This past Saturday, about 100 people descended on 111 Minna Galle...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2011
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 1
Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie af...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. We hear Julia introducing her late friend, M.F.K. Fisher, who takes us out for a staggeringly gluttonous me...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 4
Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!
Bought by KISU
- Added: Sep 08, 2010
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!
- Added: Sep 07, 2010
- Length: 01:59
Laughter really IS the best medicine! The 2-minute health interstitial your station has needed!
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 01:59
