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The Great Matzo Ball debate: firm or fluffy? Just in time for Passover, Joan Nathan joins us for our matzo ball recipe swap. We'll hear your favorite matzo ball soup recipes, family stories, and matzo ball mishaps. Plus, a doctor explains why many medical breakthroughs are the result of accidents. Alfred Molina on his role in the film The Hoax. Also: Charles Rangel on his life from the streets of Harlem to the halls of Congress.
Medical Accidents
Viagra was developed during experiments on medications designed to treat angina. Dr. Morton Meyers says that most significant breakthroughs in medical research usually come about by accident. Dr. Meyers is author of the new book Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs.
Events: Dr. Morton A. Meyers will be speaking
Thursday, April 5 at 5:30 pm
The Science, Industry and Business Library
188 Madison Avenue, at 34th Street
Seating is limited and is first come, first served.
For more information, visit the NYPL website.
We Want Your Matzo Balls
Jewish food expert Joan Nathan co-hosts our 2007 Matzo Ball Recipe Swap. We'll share some of our favorite submissions on-air on April 2.
JOAN NATHAN'S MATZO BALLS
from New American Cooking by Joan Nathan
I suppose that, being who I am, I cannot write a cookbook without a recipe for matzo balls. We have all heard about the properties of chicken soup, but the curative effects of matzo balls are less well known. Whenever friends are suffering from the effects of chemotherapy, one of foods that they ask me to bring is chicken soup with matzo balls.
3 tablespoons chicken fat or vegetable oil
6 large eggs, well beaten
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground ginger or 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 ¼ cups matzo meal
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
3 quarts water
1. Mix the chicken fat or vegetable oil with the eggs, salt, ginger, nutmeg, matzo meal and parsley together in a medium bowl. Cover and refrigerate for a few hours or overnight.
2. Bring the water to a boil in a large pot. Take the matzo mix out of the refrigerator and, after dipping your hands into a bowl of cold water, gently form balls the size of large walnuts. Add the salt to the water and drop in the balls. Simmer slowly, covered, for about 20 minutes, remove from water with a slotted spoon, and add to the soup.
Yield: about 12
-Joan Nathan
Alfred Molina in "The Hoax"
The Hoax, a film directed by Lasse Hallström, is inspired by true events in the life of Clifford Irving, the writer who nearly pulled off one of the most audacious media scams in history. Leonard talks to Alfred Molina, who stars in The Hoax.
Congressman Charles Rangel's Attitude
After he nearly died in the Korean War, Congressman Charles Rangel says that he lost his right to complain about anything again in life. That attitude has probably helped him survive more than 35 years in politics. His new memoir is And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress.
Events: Charles Rangel will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, April 3 at 7 pm
The Hue-Man Bookstore
2319 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, between 124th and 125th Streets
Charles Rangel will be speaking and signing books
Wednesday, April 4 at 7 pm
Lincoln Square Barnes & Noble
1972 Broadway, at 66th Street
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