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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 

Food is certainly the most palatable expression of culture, and the most easily shared.
 
LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted - culture. In this UNCUT interview, he talks with Anne Strainchamps about food in translation.
 
It'll get your stomach growling, so have some snacks handy!
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Judy Pascoe tells Steve Paulson about her novel “Our Father Who Art in a Tree.”  A young girl’s father dies unexpectedly, but she finds his spirit lives in the backyard tree.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?

Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture. 
 
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jay Parini talks with Jim Fleming about the power of poetry and how it especially empowers young people in troubled times.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Topes de Collante nature reserve is nestled In the mountains southeast of Havana. We go for a hike with naturalist Andres Santana Diaz, who points out various natural remedies from rainforest plants.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

M.J. Ryan wants to revive the custom of saying grace before meals.  She tells Jim Fleming how she became a collector of mealtime blessings.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Natalie Goldberg talks about the process of writing a memoir and tells Anne Strainchamps why it is her favorite genre.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jessica Queller tells Anne Strainchamps why she decided to have a double mastectomy after she tested positive for the breast cancer gene and her mother died of ovarian cancer.

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