Amor Towles' 'The Lincoln Highway,' Holiday Wine Pairings, 'Caroline, or Change,' A New Cookbook on Native American Cooking
Celebrated novelist Amor Towles, author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility, speaks with us about his latest novel and the number one New York Times bestseller, The Lincoln Highway, a road-trip adventure story set in the 1950s.
WNYC planning editor Kate Hinds joins us for her ongoing series, “Kate Has a Plan,” to discuss the stories the newsroom is following this week.
Food and Wine editor Ray Isle joins the show to talk about the best wine pairings for the holiday season and takes listener calls.
The 2003 musical by Tony Kushner, “Caroline, or Change,” has found new life and critical acclaim on the Broadway stage. Actor Sharon D. Clarke joins us to discuss her starring role as Caroline Thibodaux, a Black single mother struggling to make ends meet working as a maid to a well-off Jewish family in 1960s Lake Charles Louisiana.
Acclaimed chef Freddie Bitsoie, and James-Beard award-winning writer James O. Fraioli, join us to talk their new cookbook, New Native Kitchen: Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian. The cookbook explores and celebrates Indigenous cuisine from across the country, providing modern interpretations of one hundred recipes that have been the basis of American cuisine for centuries.
