Arts and Ideas

Passover Pareve Apple Cake

When it was given to me, this recipe originally specified flour, not matzo cake meal. I didn’t think it was very good, but I made it a few times anyway, as my family and friends liked it. Obsessing....

Excerpt From Lush Life

Richard Price

Prologue The Quality of Life Task Force: four sweatshirts in a bogus taxi set up on the corner of Clinton Street alongside the Williamsburg Bridge off-ramp to profile the incoming salmon run;....

Pipistrelle

By Mark Doty

His music, Charles writes, makes us avoidable. I write: emissary of evening. We're writing poems about last night's bat. Charles has stripped the scene to lyric, while I'm filling in....

East Meets West

WNYC airs a five part series, East Meets West, which examines the ancient and complex relationships among communities found along the Silk Road, produced by the staff of Wisconsin Public Radio’s To....

Chicken in a pot with Root Vegetables

1 large (3 1/2 pound) fresh chicken 1 cup each: peeled and diced carrots, new potatoes, turnips, onions 1 cup whole button mushrooms (washed and dried) 6 peeled garlic cloves pinch of saffron....

Spaghetti with Dungeness Crab Meat, Jalapeno Chili and Lemon Butter

3/4 pound of Organic spaghetti 1/2 pound fresh picked Dungeness crab meat (or any good Maryland crab meat) 1 jalapeno chili ( stemmed and sliced thinly) 2 shallots (peeled and minced finely) ....

Huang Ruo and Winnie Yang Guest Blog

February 05, 2008

WNYC.org features two guest bloggers to report on the festivities and culture of the Lunar New Year holiday for two weeks starting Thursday, February 7th. Composer Huang Ruo Huang Ruo, whose wor....

Brian Lehrer Show's Best Books of 2007

Listeners and guests shared their favorite reads, just in time for gift-giving season. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver Blown Sideways Throug....

Michael Lomonaco’s New Year’s recipes

Baby Back Ribs with Sherry Vinegar and Honey 4 racks baby back pork ribs (5-6 lb total weight), cut into individual ribs 1 cup Spanish sherry vinegar 1 cup honey 1/4 cup soy sauce 1 ta....

2007 Third Coast Festival Broadcast

December 17, 2007

The Third Coast Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program called the 2007 Third Coast Festival Broadcast. The featured docu....

Holiday Cookie Recipe Swap

View all user recipes Barbara Jones from Chester NJ My absolute favorite cookie is a not too sweet tiny pastry-like cookie from (I believe) Hungary: Kifli: 3 1/2 C flour ....

Leonard Lopate Interviews Several Winners of the New York Times Top 10 List

November 28, 2007

The New York Times recently announced their list of the 10 best books of 2007. Listen to Leonard Lopate's interviews with several of the authors on the list: FICTION: Michael Tho....

WNYC Special Thanksgiving Programming

November 22, 2007

To celebrate Thanksgiving WNYC offers an evening of special programming on both AM 820 and FM 93.9. 93.9 FM 8 p.m. Handel’s Belshazzar broadcast from St. Ignatius Loyola Church.....

Home Sweet Homemade

HOME SWEET HOMEMADE Why stop at cookies when you can transform your kitchen into a full-scale holiday sweetshop? Recipes by Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez and Lillian Chou MINT LOLLIPOP....

The DNA Files

Airs Saturdays at 2PM on AM820, beginning Dec. 8, 2007

The DNA Files, the award-winning NPR series that explores the mysterious world of the genome and its impact on life in the 21st century, returns to public radio with five new one-hour documentaries.....

2007 National Book Awards

November 15, 2007

Follow the link to listen to their interviews with Leonard Lopate Tim Weiner won the non-fiction prize for Legacy of Ashes Sherman Alexie won the prize for young people’s literature for The A....

Tastes Like Cuba by Eduardo Machado

Plantain Omelet The combination of eggs and bananas may seem odd at first, but it is just that combination of sweet and savory flavors that keeps me coming back for more. The texture of this omele....

September 11th 2007 Commemoration Ceremony

The City’s observance will take place at Zuccotti Park, on Liberty Street between Broadway and Church Streets, on the morning of Tuesday, September 11th. The ceremony will officially begin at 8:40....

Only In America: 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience

Airs Sunday Sept. 16 through Friday Sept. 21 at 2PM on AM 820

“Only in America” tells the story of Jewish immigration from 1654 to the present, and includes profiles of key historical figures including Asser Levy, Levi Strauss, Irving Berlin and Supreme Cou....

Stories from the Heart of the Land

September 05, 2007

Airs Saturdays at 4PM on 93.9 FM, September 8, 15, 22, 29 and October 6

“Stories from the Heart of the Land,” is a 5-part radio series hosted by Jay Allison and produced by WNYC alum Emily Botein. “Stories” features award-winning producers and reporters, includi....