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(Something From the Oven)
From post-war food shortages to Alice B. Toklas to three-star cuisine and slow food, Paris is one of the world’s capitols of gastronomy. Food writer and editor Ruth Reichl talks with Leonard about Parisian food. Then Laura Shapiro looks at food across the Atlantic – the reinvention of American eating habits after World War II. Philip Longman challenges the commonplace belief that we should be worrying about global overpopulation – he thinks that reduced fertility and global aging are the real problems. And we take a look at the life of Gordon Langley Hall, a society figure who became known as Dawn Langley Hall after a sex change operation in the 1960s.
Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl talks about Parisian cuisine and why French food has been considered by many to be the world’s best. Reichl is editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine.
Music: The Canadian Brass Swingtime! (RCAVictor)—tracks 4 and 12
Music: The Canadian Brass Swingtime! (RCAVictor)—tracks 4 and 12
Laura Shapiro
According to Laura Shapiro, the 1950s eating revolution in the United States was the result of a war-induced overcapacity for food production and preservation. The food industry had to figure out how to get American housewives to use more canned and frozen food. Shapiro is the author of Something From ...
Philip Longman
Philip Longman is the author of The Empty Cradle: Freedom and Fertility in an Aging World. He claims the shrinking global population might lead to an explosion of fundamentalism and the collapse of both free markets and health care.
Music: A Shock To The System Soundtrack (Windham hill ...
Music: A Shock To The System Soundtrack (Windham hill ...
Edward Ball
Edward Ball’s new book is Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love. It's a biography of Gordon Langley Hall (later known as Dawn), who shocked 1960s Charleston society.
Music: Terence Blanchard Jazz in Film (Sony Classical)—track 3
Music: Terence Blanchard Jazz in Film (Sony Classical)—track 3
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