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In the United States, home-cooked meals with family are revered almost to the point of fetishization. Dinners are seen as moral imperatives for hap...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 24:02
- Purchases: 2
This month we travel to Hibbing for Let's Visit! In this segment, Hannah Forti discusses the 105 year history of the family-owned and operated Sun...
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 09:26
We talk with journalist Aida Edemariam about her memoir, The Wife's Tale: A Personal History. It's about her Ethiopian grandmother who, over nearly...
- Added: Oct 04, 2018
- Length: 59:01
A weed might be said to represent valuelessness, and worse perhaps, a thing which actively devalues what many consider to be the proper and true wa...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Dec 05, 2017
- Length: 57:53
- Purchases: 1
Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery bus...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 21:16
- Purchases: 1
-How local breweries foster communities.
-The story of an unrecognized founding father
-The challenges of being a nurse in northern Alaska.
And mor...
Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 7
Jell-O could seem like a trivial food. It’s brightly colored, nutritionally void, and, hey, it jiggles. But in Appalachia, Jell-O marked a transfor...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WMMT
- Added: Mar 24, 2016
- Length: 21:41
- Purchases: 2
A culture has grown up around brewing beer locally and at home. The brewmasters at Champion Brewing Company discuss "shower beer" and beer made wit...
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 5