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Summary: Each day on The Faith Middleton Show, we bring you interesting guests and great conversation. For 26 years, we've explored important social issues, health, art and of course, food! We've opened up our phone lines, so you can join us in discussing war, politics and your favorite books. Hope you can join us.
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Join the Food Schmooze gang for a look at… Lard! No, really. Stick with us on this one. Lard is a good, healthful cooking fat, and we’ll go over the science that says so. PLUS, a whole slew of recipes from Grit magazine’s new cookbook, Lard: The Lost Art of Cooking with Your Grandmother’s Secret Ingredient.
American Colossus explains how we transformed ourselves from an agrarian society to a booming industrial nation. Can we transform ourselves again? Plus, a biography of the sun.
American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (And What We Can Do About It) by Jonathan Bloom Grocery prices and the forsaken foods at the back of your fridge seem to increase weekly. After reading American Wasteland, you will never look at your shopping list, refrigerator, plate, or wallet the same way again. Jonathan Bloom wades into the garbage heap to unearth wha...
An environmental advocacy group that grew into an international powerhouse. We'll talk with John H. Adams, founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, whose inspiring memoir tells how the world's preeminent environmental agency got started. Plus, Mosette Broderick, renowned architectural and social historian, tells the story of the most influential architectural firm of its time. In her b...
As the temperatures start to dip, the Food Schmooze gang talks soup. Plus, Jonathan Waxman breathes new life into Italian classics with Italian, My Way. And Betty Rosbottom returns with simple, delicious recipes for leisurely mornings: Sunday Brunch.
From its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence, physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. His Pulitzer Prize...
It’s the fiftieth anniversary of CPTV! Connecticut Public Broadcasting President and CEO Jerry Franklin joins us. David Shipley and Will Schwalbe's Send—the classic guide to email for office and home—has become indispensable for readers navigating the impersonal, and at times overwhelming, world of electronic communication. Filled with real-life email success (and horror) stories and a wealth...
From its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas—from Freemasonry to Spiritualism, from Madame H. P. Blavatsky to Edgar Cayce—dramatically altered the nation’s culture, politics, and religion. Yet the mystical roots of our identity are often ignored or overlooked. Mitch Horowitz...
If it’s Wednesday, it’s The Food Schmooze: The gang takes a look at that favorite mainstay, pasta. Melissa Clark returns with her book Cook This Now. And we’re joined by special guests Matthew Scialabba and Melissa Pellegrino from Bufalina restaurant in Guilford, CT. Their new book is The Southern Italian Farmer’s Table.
Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with mice? Who enjoys a better quality of life—the chicken destined for your dinner plate or the rooster in a Saturday night cockfight? Why is it wrong to eat the family dog? Drawing on more than two decades of research into the emerging field of anthrozoology, the science of human–animal...
Both a rousing adventure story and a testament to the spirit of democracy, Ethan Allen is the landmark biography of a man whose temper and philosophy helped define a nation. Our guest, William Sterne Randall, gives us the first comprehensive portrait of Ethan Allen in decades, masterfully evoking the upward struggle from childhood poverty to commandment of the largest American military force on...
The First Real Kitchen Cookbook: 100 Recipes and Tips for New Cooks by Megan & Jill Carle Every year, tens of thousands of hungry twentysomethings graduate college and rent their first apartment. They love food and want to learn how to cook. The First Real Kitchen Cookbook is the just-graduated's go-to guide, explaining in a friendly, encouraging voice everything that can be done on a tin...
Constitution Café: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution by Christopher Phillips Thomas Jefferson believed that every generation of Americans should rewrite our Constitution from scratch—to mirror the progress of the human mind and, most of all, to maintain the revolutionary spirit. He would be dismayed that it’s considered untouchable these days. Taking up Jefferson’s cause, Christopher...
Join Faith for conversation with MSNBC's Chris Hayes. And a look at criminal justice from two angles, the psychology of the system, and whether a murderer can ever be redeemed.
The Ironman triathlon: a 2.4-mile open-water swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26-mile marathon run—all completed in seventeen hours or less. For some, that demonstration of stamina and quitlessness is a life-defining goal. Jacques Steinberg’s You Are an Ironman follows six hobbyist triathletes through their grueling preparation and the suspense of completing each event of the Ford Ironman Ariz...