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Know your sturgeon! Food guru David Rosengarten joins Rick Moonen, chef of the fish-centric restaurant RM, for a caviar taste test. Richard Moran explores the development of the electric chair, Executioners Current. Plus, a conversation with actors Ebony Joanne, Janet Schubert and hat designer Arnold Levine about Regina Taylor's new play "Crowns". Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett discusses a new production at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, "Prayers from the Edge."
David Rosengarten and Rick Moonen
Food guru David Rosengarten joins Rick Moonen, chef of the "sea-chic" restaurant RM, for a caviar taste test. Read the Rosengarten Report to learn more about the best tasting caviar.
Music: Mighty Aphrodite soundtrack-Carmen Cavallaro "Manhattan"
Erroll Garner "Penthouse Serenade"
CAVIAR RESULTS
Caviar Round One
1. Golden Whitefish Brown Trading Co. $4/ounce
2. Salmon Caviar Browne Trading Co. $5/ounce
TIED:
Carolina Trout Roe Sunburst Trout Co. $8/ounce
Lojram Scandia less than $2/ounce
Caviar Round Two
Agreed that all of the caviar was "fabulous"
Spoonbill Browne Trading Co. $20/ounce
Hackleback Carolyn Collins $35/ounce
Persicus Browne Trading Co. $68/ounce
Sterling Premium Stolt Sea Farms $42/ounce
Ostera Russ and Daughters $45/ounce
Iranian Imperial Russ and Daughters $54/ounce
Richard Moran
Richard Moran explores the development of the electric chair, Executioners Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and the Invention of the Electric Chair. Read an excerpt in the Reading Room.
Music: Thin Blue Line soundtrack composer Phillip Glass tracks 1, 31
Ebony Joanne, Janet Schubert and Arnold Levine
A conversation with actors Ebony Joanne, Janet Schubert and hat designer Arnold Levine about Regina Taylor 's new play adapted from Michael Cunningham & Craig Mayberry's book, "Crowns: A Play With Gospel Music". For ticket information and performance times, call 212-246-442
Music: Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers "Touch the Hem of his Garment"
Mahalia Jackson (Crowns soundtrack) "His Eye Is On The Sparrow"
Lynne Taylor-Corbett
Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett discusses a new production at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, "Prayers from the Edge."
Music: Peter Gabriel-Passion "The Feeling Begins"
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