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Survival Kit Archive
August 2002
Anthony Bourdain
Sunday, August 25, 2002
Anthony Bourdain has said that he wants to “try everything once”. He’s eaten a still-beating cobra heart in Vietnam, potentially deadly fugu blowfish in Tokyo, iguana and toasted grasshoppers in Mexico. And if those aren’t dangerous enough, in Cambodia he visited a casino run by the Khmer Rouge. He’s spent two decades cooking in New York’s finest restaurants, is currently the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles, and the author of the bestsellers Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour, which inspired a series on TV’s Food Channel. Let’s find out what the man who’s tried just about everything would pack in his survival kit.
Mary Ellen Mark
Sunday, August 18, 2002
Mary Ellen Mark has travelled all over the world to capture her award-winning photographic images. She has chronicled the lives of prostitutes in Bombay, addicts in Britain, the dying in Calcutta, circus performers in Mexico, Vietnam, and India, and homeless children in this country, in sensitive (yet gritty) detail. But today we've asked her to take a trip of a different sort, an imaginary trip to an unpopulated island or isolated cabin in the woods, and tell us what eight items she would put in her cultural Survival Kit.
Jane Smiley
Sunday, August 11, 2002
Each of Jane Smiley’s novels portrays a unique community: The Greenlanders depicts a colony of Vikings in the 14th century; Duplicate Keys, a cutting-edge rock band in Manhattan; A Thousand Acres, a farm family in Iowa; Moo, campus life at a large agricultural college, and Horse Heaven, the world of thoroughbred horse-racing. She’s even written a biography of Charles Dickens which explores his role in the society of Victorian England. Her interests are so wide-ranging, I can’t imagine what she’ll want to bring with her on this trip, or what she’ll be willing to leave behind.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Sunday, August 04, 2002
Today on Survival Kit I will be talking with country singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore, who has had some experience in the area of spiritual retreats. After making a name for himself in the early 1970’s with his band the Flatlanders, he dropped out of the music scene for over a decade to study Eastern religions and meditation, then came back in the late 80’s to resume recording and touring. He is still singing and writing country songs about love and loss, but from a slightly different perspective, and he has now agreed to give us some insight into what makes him tick by sharing the contents of his cultural Survival Kit.