PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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You might think of Coca Cola as an iconic American brand… but it was born in the South. How did Coke’s Atlanta birthplace shape what the soft drink...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and KVLU


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 25:24
  • Purchases: 2
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Corn is a ubiquitous part of Southern food—from bread to whiskey. But how did it get to be that way? In this episode of Gravy, we go on a hunt for ...

Bought by KVLU and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 25:21
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Justin Hopkins performing the role of Booker Wright in "Repast." , Credit: Photo by Brandall Atkinson.
One spring day in 1965, a waiter in Greenwood, Mississippi gave an interview for an NBC television documentary. What he said has made him an unlike...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 36:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Man with rake and drying shrimp. , Credit: Photo courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection.
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
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How did Huntsville, Alabama become home to a whole host of German restaurants? It has more to do with rocket science, than with Southerners’ love o...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 33:42
  • Purchases: 1
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The Dating Show - Hot Air Balloon Ride and History, Caricature Artists, Italian Wedding Soup

Bought by KXCR and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 2
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Listeners escape with Michelle Valentine to a quaint, historical Florida waterside bed & breakfast. Learn about the history of the hotel and take a...

Bought by KXCR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shirley Sherrod on the porch of the antebellum mansion at Resora Plantation , Credit: Photo by Tina Antolini.
Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the cou...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WJCT, WABE, and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: Jan 01, 2016
  • Length: 50:14
  • Purchases: 4
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While West Virginia may be known for resources like coal, the country once turned to this mountain state for a culinary staple: salt. In this episo...

Bought by WMMT, WMMT, KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Chef Kevin Mitchell at the Nat Fuller Feast of 2015, Credit: Photo by Jonathan Boncek
Charleston, South Carolina has become the center of discussions about race and violence in America these past few weeks. But a dinner party held in...

Bought by KVLU, WJCT, and WABE


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 3
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...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
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.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
Caption: George Washington's Chef, Hercules
Hidden Kitchens explores the food of the founding fathers through the stories of Hercules and James Hemings, enslaved chefs of George Washington an...

Bought by KWMR, KZYX, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 12
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Hidden Kitchens Texas, a new hour of lively, sound-rich stories from Peabody Award-winning producers, The Kitchen Sisters, KUT Austin, and NPR. Hos...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KOSU, Wisconsin Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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Alarming trends in school lunch outsourcing and a lack of home cookng has caused deep concern for the future of New Orleans culinary traditions.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
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a small community in Vermont revitalizes the old New England tradition of ice cutting and in the process talks about sustainability, communal livin...

Bought by CKMO and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 20, 2006
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 2
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In this amusing piece Adrian Boyés plunges into the mysteries surrounding comfort food.

Bought by WXLV-FM, PRX, KUCB, WNKU, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 6
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Californians rediscover their olive groves.

Bought by KVNF, KZSC, and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 02, 2003
  • Length: 15:45
  • Purchases: 3