Madhulika Sikka

Madhulika Sikka appears in the following:

In This Test Kitchen, The Secret To A Great Cookbook Is Try, Try Again

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Underneath railway arches on a nondescript street in North London, you'll find an old warehouse that's the epicenter of the Ottolenghi food empire.

Jerusalem-born food impresario Yotam Ottolenghi and his business partner, Sami Tamimi, started out over a decade ago with one restaurant in London selling fresh, Middle East-inspired ...

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Author Charles Cumming Ponders The Seductions — And The Sins — Of Spying

Monday, September 01, 2014

If you were making a movie about the world of British espionage, you'd want to cast someone like Charles Cumming as your undercover agent. He's tall and handsome and self-assured and utterly charming in that self-deprecating British way. You can imagine him effortlessly gliding through the small talk of embassy ...

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Lose Yourself In The Wild Forests Of 'Those Who Wish Me Dead'

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Jace Wilson is a 13-year-old boy who plans to do what many boneheaded 13-year-olds do: something dumb on a dare, to once and for all dispense with the idea that he might be a coward. But while psyching himself up to go through with the dare, he witnesses a murder ...

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Mammogram Uncertainty Gives Patients, Doctors More Reason To Talk

Monday, February 24, 2014

I am 51 years old and have had a yearly mammogram, more or less, since the age of 40.

I got them despite the fact that there is no history of breast cancer in my family. I did it because that was what my doctor and others, including the American ...

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Adventures Ripped From The Headlines: Questions For Alex Berenson

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

This week sees the publication of The Counterfeit Agent, the 8th book in author Alex Berenson's thriller series featuring former military man and CIA recruit John Wells. Wells can kill with his bare hands, he likes to exorcise his demons in the dead of night, at breakneck speed on the ...

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Covering the Anniversary of the Newtown Shooting

Friday, December 06, 2013

Next weekend marks the anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook elementary, and the town of Newtown has asked that the press stay away out of respect for the grieving families and community. Brooke discusses media coverage in light of this request as well as the ethics of airing the recently released 911 phone calls with executive editor of NPR news, Madhulika Sikka.

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Everything Old Is New Again: The Toilet-Sink Edition

Friday, July 12, 2013

This week we featured Latvian designer Kaspars Jursons' solution to help conserve water: the seemingly ingenious "sink-urinal." It's exactly what it sounds like: a sink built on top of a urinal so that the water used to wash hands runs down to the urinal and is used for flushing. ...

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