If you would like to hear the direct streaming feed, please click here. You can also download the show from Apple’s iTunes music store, or by using Juice, a nifty little podcast subscribing program. On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land explains why the hyacinth beans and morning glories aren’t blooming [...]
(Note from Alex Tuller. Don’t eat wild mushrooms unless you know what you are doing, or someone else you trust does. We picked these with an expert. Eat the wrong mushroom, and you could die a miserable and painful death that would be not only agonizing, but particularly unflattering as well.) We’ve been eating lots [...]
If you would like to hear the direct streaming feed, please click here. You can also download the show from Apple’s iTunes music store, or by using Juice, a nifty little podcast subscribing program. On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land says there’s nothing more to do in the heat except [...]
On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land starts pulling the garlic out of her garden, Amenia horse expert Cari Swanson says that horse has charisma, Alex Tuller makes venison-beef burgers, Dean Temple reads the Sidney Lanier poem The Mockingbird and we have “The List” from Ilana Papele of events too great [...]
It seems that everyone has their own burger recipe. Most are good just so long as you don’t over cook the things whether you are cooking on the grill or in the broiler. We ate venison-beef burgers last night and since there was a lightning storm going on, we decided not to grill; just because [...]
by Sidney Lanier Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray That o’er the general leafage boldly grew, He summ’d the woods in song; or typic drew The watch of hungry hawks, the lone dismay Of languid doves when long their lovers stray, And all birds’ passion-plays that sprinkle dew At morn in brake or bosky [...]
On this week’s show, NY Times Garden QandA columnist Leslie Land reviews the biennials in general and foxglove in particular, Amenia horse expert Cari Swanson counts in horse years, Alex Tuller makes brownies by special request, Dean Temple reads the Catherine Barnett poem Family Reunion, and we have “The List” from Ilana Papele of events [...]
(Adapted from the Best Recipe CookBook by Alex Tuller for the July 7, 2006 podcast) A friend requested I post my brownie recipe, because it is so good. They are really good and they are easy to double or even quadruple. 8 oz unsalted butter 2 oz unsweetened chocolate 2/3 cups cake flour 1/2 tsp [...]
American Life in Poetry: Column 067 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 One in a series of elegies by New York City poet Catherine Barnett, this poem describes the first gathering after death has shaken a family to its core. The father tries to help his grown daughter forget for a moment that, a [...]