Guests Bearing Holiday Gifts




The Brian Lehrer Show show

Summary: <p>Maricel Presilla, PhD, culinary historian, chef, restaurateur and the author of <em>Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America</em> (W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 2012), offers a recipe and talks about the holidays and the closing her Hoboken restaurant due to the pandemic.</p> <p>David Sedaris, author and humorist, shares a story from his new collection of stories, <em>The Best of Me</em> (Little, Brown and Company, 2020).</p> <p>Maeve Higgins, comedian and contributing writer for <em>The New York Times</em>, tries to stump us with questions from the new citizenship exam.</p> <p>John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast at Slate and contributing editor at <em>The Atlantic</em>, brings his holiday gift of some tricky language questions for listeners to try to answer.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>