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Sara Jenkins: Simple Mediterranean Cooking

Oct 20th, 2008 · For her new cookbook, Olives and Oranges, chef Sara Jenkins found inspiration in the memories of her childhood, when she traveled across Italy, Spain, France, Lebanon and Cyprus. She has fashioned her cooking style around recollections from that childhood abroad.

Keywords: Fashion · Italy · France · Spain · Memories · Lebanon · childhood · inspiration · cookbook · chefs · recollections · Orange

Homework: School Elections, Memorable Characters ***

Jan 12th, 2008 · Listeners share recollections of running for office as kids in school elections. Next week's assignment: Tell of the character you find most memorable and why. It can be someone from a novel you've read, or a favorite film.

Keywords: officer · schools · novel · recollections · homework

Lorraine Gordon, Keeper of a Shrine to Jazz

Feb 27th, 2007 · Lorraine Gordon is the keeper of New York's historic Village Vanguard. Recently, Gordon published a set of memoirs, the recollections of a woman who was married to two famous men of jazz. The book recalls a life lived beyond society's expectations -- a colorful swirl of music, politics and family.

Keywords: politics · New York · Society · memoir · historian · music · Family · famous · Jazz · married · Keeper · recollections

Reporter Contradicts Libby's Testimony About Agent

Jan 30th, 2007 · Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller testifies that Lewis "Scooter" Libby first discussed an undercover CIA agent with her weeks before his stated recollection. Libby is the former vice presidential aide accused of lying to FBI agents and a grand jury about the CIA leak.

Keywords: Libby · presidential · CIA · testimony · FBI · jury · vice · agent · New York Times · undercover · recollections · Judith Miller

Fond Recollections of a Romanticized Youth

Nov 13th, 2006 · Amidst swirling strings, reverberating vocal harmonies, gentle guitars and a dusty rhythmic shuffle, Shawn Lee temporarily gets caught in vaguely optimistic reverie as he sings, "I wonder if I'll ever feel this way again." But his sentiments turn pragmatic quickly.

Keywords: Shuffle · youth · Romanticized · Harmonies · Reverberates · guitar · Dusty · recollections · rhythmic · pragmatic · Shawn Lee · reverie

'Last Post:' Final Thoughts from Britain's WWI Vets

Nov 12th, 2005 · Last year, author Max Arthur began collecting the recollections of Britain's few remaining veterans of the Great War. Their stories have recently been published in Britain as Last Post: The Final Word from our First World War Soldiers.

Keywords: Britain · veterans · Vets · collection · recollections · WWI · Great War · Max Arthur · Last Post · Final Word · First World War Soldiers

'The Welcome Table': Recipes from Maya Angelou *

Oct 26th, 2005 · Author and poet Maya Angelou talks about her latest work, a book of recipes and recollections she's put together that combine her love of cooking and good food with her deeper love of the people she shares her table with.

Keywords: Food · angeles · poet · cooking · recipes · maya · Maya Angelou · recollections

'My Father the Spy'

Aug 13th, 2005 · John Richardson Jr.'s father was CIA station chief in Saigon in the early 1960s. But the senior Richardson said little about his job until late in life. His son builds on the recollections for an "investigative memoir."

Keywords: senior · CIA · building · memoir · 1960 · recollections · John Richardson Jr · Saigon · Richardson