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Young Food Critics
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Special Foods and Special Occasions.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:08
For the Love of Spam
From: Rene Gutel
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A Couple Discovers a Rift over Breakfast

  • Added: Nov 03, 2007
  • Length: 04:07
Grill Club
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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A few teens in Anchorage, Alaska are grillin' sandwiches right out of their lockers.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
B-Side: Food and Coping
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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How do you cope with a rough day? Perhaps some comfort food? This is B-Side and we're talking about food?and coping.

Bought by WLRH, WRVO Public Media, KXOT Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Taste of Marin
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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From cops chasing speeders to Agricultural celebration

  • Added: Sep 10, 2007
  • Length: 09:52
David Bouchier Essay: Slow Food
From: WSHU
Series: Essays by David Bouchier
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David takes food very seriously.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2007
  • Length: 03:46
Cheez
From: Merle Kessler
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A tribute to the foodlike substances of my youth.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 01:53
David Bouchier Essay: The Absent Minded Gourmet
From: WSHU
Series: Essays by David Bouchier
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David finds some old recipes and updates his menu.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 03:44
Coke: the unreal thing
From: Merle Kessler
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Soda meets skin care: why?

  • Added: May 05, 2007
  • Length: 02:30
Whole Foods is a grocery store. Get over it.
From: Merle Kessler
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The cult of Whole Foods. Shudder.

  • Added: May 05, 2007
  • Length: 02:13
Pizzas and Pesos
From: Merle Kessler
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Pizzeria the American Southwest accepts pesos. Fury! Why?

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Mar 15, 2007
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 1
100 Mile Meal: A Homegrown Thanksgiving
From: The Environment Report
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A reporter's attempt to buy all of the ingredients in his Thanksgiving meal from sources within 100 miles, right down to the salt.

Bought by PRX Remix, KISU, Delta College Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2006
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 30
Checkout checking out?
From: Merle Kessler
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Unintended consequences of automated checkouts considered.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Aug 20, 2006
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
Eggs
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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A march through a dozen ways to enjoy an egg.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
Eating Close to Home
From: Atlantic Public Media
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Bill McKibben decides to eat only food grown locally. In the winter. In Vermont.

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, KISU, KUT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2006
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 10
In Vino Veritas (The fine Art of Winespeak)
From: Mark McDevitt
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Humorous short piece about selling wine for a living

  • Added: Dec 06, 2005
  • Length: 04:54
A Cook's Notebook: Turkey Stuffing Paul's Way
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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My father says I should make stuffing his way or no way.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Hunter
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Join an urban Jew on a journey into the Food Matrix.

Bought by WTIP, KXOT Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 3
A Cook's Notebook: Old Oil
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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What do you do with the oil after you deep-fry a turkey? Bury it. On your neighbor's property.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
That exhausting community garden
From: Michael Jackman
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My wife's organic community garden takes over her life.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:26
Burn Baby Burn
From: Merle Kessler
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How "Burn Baby Burn" went from war cry to hot sauce.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2005
  • Length: 01:39
Home Planet: "Hot or Not?" by Cheryl-Anne Millsap
From: Spokane Public Radio
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"Hot or Not?" essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 21, 2005
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Cook's Notebook: Charlie's Duck
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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Duck in three days

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2005
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 1
A Cook's Notebook: Christmas Lobster
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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The last Xmas meal I cooked for my Jewish husband was lobster. That was in 1994.

Bought by KZYX, KRCB 104.9, WKMS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 7
A Cook's Notebook: Turducken: Three Birds - One Stone
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
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A chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey. Go figure.

Bought by KSFR, Delta College Public Radio, WRNC-LP, WTIP, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2003
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 8