These programs have been made possible in part by the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts.

HUNGRY VALENTINE is an hour of love stories that center on the kitchen. Actress Nina Gold performs romantic passages from Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for Chocolate"; chef Judy Rodgers takes us into the kitchen of San Francisco's Zuni Cafe for a romantic recipe; and the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, has a story about fixing lunch for an important guest -- one of her famous stories of "doomed" love.

HUNGRY FOR THE HOLIDAYS is an hour with the actor, Peter Donat, dramatizing the Cratchit family's Christmas feast; chef Mary Risley showing how to make the figgy pudding; and M.F.K. Fisher performing a story she wrote in 1937, about an over-the-top meal in France.

Future programs will be built around a tale within the tale of Willa Cather's "Death Comes to the Archbishop" -- and Steinbeck's "Cannery Row"; Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; and Anne Tyler's "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant."

Half hours available include "LUNCH WITH M.F.K. Fisher" -- with her story "I Was Really Very Hungry"; "LUNCH WITH EDNA O'BRIEN," reading her story, "Violets"; and "CHICKEN A LA STEINBECK": In "Cannery Row" the hobos poach a chicken in a 5-gallon coffee can over a low-burning campfire. What they don't know, but Julia does, is that their technique is the same as Poule au Pot, the favorite dish of King Henri IV of Navarre. Hide full description

These programs have been made possible in part by the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts.HUNGRY VALENTINE is an hour of love stories that center on the kitchen. Actress Nina Gold performs romantic passages from Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for Chocolate"; chef Judy Rodgers takes us into the kitchen of San Francisco's Zuni Cafe for a romantic recipe; and the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, has a story about fixing lunch for an important guest -- one of her famous stories of "doomed" love.HUNGRY FOR THE HOLIDAYS is an hour with the actor, Peter Donat, dramatizing the Cratchit family's Christmas feast; chef Mary Risley showing how to make the figgy pudding; and M.F.K. Fisher performing a story she wrote in 1937, about an over-the-top meal in France.Future programs will... Show full description