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Forgotten Foods of NYC: Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
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
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Debra Klaber (right) and Paul J. Hintersteiner (left). , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
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...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
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
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Automat Baked Beans and Childs' Chocolate Syrup
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Hilda Baumol., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
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
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Soda Fountain Memories
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Monte Malach. , Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
Comfort Foods
From: Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Generational discoussion on comfort foods we all enjoy

  • Added: Nov 13, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Vitamin D: All the Rage - Will it Really Improve Your Health?
From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs
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Vitamin D is credited with everything from lowering blood pressure, preventing heart disease and cancer and famously for preventing falls in the el...

  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Let's Do Lunch! with Dominic Chianese
From: Robin Milling
Series: Milling About/Let's Do Lunch!
Caption: Dominic Chianese and Kathleen Chalfant
Former Sopranos star, Dominic Chianese aka Uncle Junior joins Robin Milling for lunch and conversation at Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop in New York City.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 30:03
Home Remedies
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion on various aspects of Home Remedies

  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Caffeine, America's Most Popular Drug
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you don't ask, you won't get it

  • Added: Dec 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:28
Your Belt Is Stretching
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A vain commentary on weight loss

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 01:18
Joe Jennings' Farm
From: Warren Black
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"I'm going to my J-O-Y, not my J-O-B."

  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:35
The Last Butcher in Little Italy
From: Laura Terruso
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Unlike most Italian Americans, Moe Albanese never left Little Italy. Born on Elizabeth Street in 1925, Moe grew up on this street and helped his p...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2007
  • Length: 15:57
Coconut Handyman
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A handyman at a girl's school is called upon for some unusual tasks.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: 01:47
Cooking For Sinatra
From: David Greenberger
Series: Growing Old In East L.A.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Francisco Mena recounts his experiences as a private chef in Vegas

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 01:45
Secret to a Happy Retirement
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lessons to help a husband be more independent in retirement, including how to use a George Foreman grill.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Eggs
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A march through a dozen ways to enjoy an egg.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
Pueblo Produce Program
From: KRCC-FM
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Seniors receive produce from local farmers

  • Added: Aug 12, 2005
  • Length: 05:38
A Cook's Notebook: Chocolate Cake for Stanley
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Baking a cake for my father-in-law who has Alzheimer's

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 4