All Cuisines Considered
November 26, 2013We’ll look at how civilizations historically have developed their eating habits with University of Texas visiting scholar Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History.
We’ll look at how civilizations historically have developed their eating habits with University of Texas visiting scholar Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History.
We’ll get to know an artist who captured 20th Century America this hour with Deborah Solomon, whose new book is American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell.
We’ll explore the cultural symbolism attached to blood this hour with Lawrence Hill, author of the Blood: The Stuff of Life.
We’ll learn this hour about the experimentation happening in avant-garde kitchens from Dana Goodyear. Her new book is Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture
This hour, we’ll listen back to highlights of interviews with guests who’ve joined us this fall to talk about the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination.
This hour, we’ll look back at Nov. 22, 1963 with North Texans who lived it.
This hour, Houston artist Rick Lowe joins us to talk about “social sculpture” and how he’s applying the idea to Dallas’ Vickery Meadow neighborhood.
We’ll spend this hour with cultural critic William Deresiewicz, the recipient of this year’s Hiett Prize, given by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
More than 2,000 abused and neglected children live in Dallas County. This hour we’ll learn about how they are cared for and about the obstacles to improved care.
Later this month, Comet ISON should be visible in the night sky. We’ll get tips this hour on how best to see it.