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The Beat: Sharon Shmielarz - "Wonder Woman At 70"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat

Sharon Chmielarz has been published in literary magazines nationwide. Chmielarz has published travel memoirs and three children's picture books. An...

Lose Weight and Live Longer with the New American Diet

From: Prime Time Radio

First, building on a collaborative research project conducted by the NIH and AARP, Dr. John Whyte gives several weight loss plans and advises diet ...

Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Well Yes We Have No Bananas Today!" -- Food Shopping in Old New York

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

Forgotten Foods of NYC: Grandma's Stuffed Cabbage

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Bonnie Sue Pokorny, 66, of Forest Hills, Queens, recalls her grandmother's stuffed cabbage. It's a dish she loves, but it's too difficult for her t...

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Forgotten Foods of NYC: "I Guess Dessert Has Been My Upbringing"

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Debra Klaber, 60, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, recalls her mother's Eastern European baking traditions -- which she has passed down to her dau...

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Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old. Ortiz started cooki...

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Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.

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Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

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Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...

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Forgotten Foods of NYC: Automat Baked Beans and Childs' Chocolate Syrup

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Hilda Baumol, 89, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the automat and a memorable (and long-shuttered) New York City restaurant chain, Childs.

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Forgotten Foods of NYC: Soda Fountain Memories

From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC

Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.

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Comfort Foods

From: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage

Generational discoussion on comfort foods we all enjoy

Vitamin D: All the Rage - Will it Really Improve Your Health?

From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs

Vitamin D is credited with everything from lowering blood pressure, preventing heart disease and cancer and famously for preventing falls in the el...