Writer Sherill Tippins jokes about one medical mystery that's pretty easy to solve.
Your DPD Thanksgiving Feast
We hope you're enjoying a fine Thanksgiving. Since one of the things we are all really thankful for around here is you, our listeners, we thought we would bring one small thing to your holiday celebrations: a collection of Thanksgiving moments from The Dinner Party Download. After all, it is the best dinner party of the year, and we want you to win.
Eddie Huang Learns to Eat, American-Style
Eddie Huang is the restaurateur behind New York's popular bun shop BaoHaus. He also hosts the Vice TV series "Fresh Off the Boat," an irreverent take on food and assimilation which shares a title with his recent memoir. In the excerpt from his book he shared with us, Eddie takes us back to his first ‘All-American’ dinner.
Retro Restaurants to Remember
Author and nightlife historian Peter Moruzzi toured America’s remaining examples of old school, wood-paneld fine dining to write his new book “Classic Dining: Discovering Mid-Century Restaurants.”
The Mother of All Appetizers
This week's small talk is about some big food. Our friend Richard Lawson - currently with Atlantic Wire, just named the new Hollywood columnist for Vanity Fair - pops in to talk about a new mutant food.
A Taste(ful) Folk Joke
Singer-songwriter Todd Snider kicks the night off with a joke.
Country Singer Julie Roberts Loves Sad, Sexy, and Steel Guitar
Julie Roberts gets ready to enjoy some "Good Wine and Bad Decisions" with her friends in this playlist entirely of fellow female singer-songwriters.
Chef Daniel Boulud Shares Casual Extravagance
Star chef and restauranteur Daniel Boulud has a new cookbook of classic, rustic French fare. If he puts truffles on your potato, we suggest not pushing them to the side.
Gail Simmons Declares Herself “Perfect Omnivore”
Top Chef Judge and culinary expert Gail Simmons calls out picky eaters as idiots and wimps and otherwise advises on polite behavior.
Stephen Fry on the Bard’s ‘Cakes and Ale’ Populism
Stephen Fry studied to be a tweedy Shakespeare scholar before a life of acting and comedy distracted him. Now he is returning to his roots and making his Broadway debut in "Twelfth Night."