Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
[REBROADCAST FROM March 16, 2026] There may be no such thing as "the best," but journalist and food writer Ella Quittner didn't let that stop her from diving into ways to make "the best" scrambled eggs, pasta, meatballs, or even bacon. She discusses her new cookbook, Obsessed With the Best: 100+ Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-to-Head Tests, in which she records her deeply researched techniques to use to produce maximal flavor with minimum effort.
Cover art courtesy of the publisher
[REBROADCAST FROM March 16, 2026] There may be no such thing as "the best," but journalist and food writer Ella Quittner didn't let that stop her from diving into ways to make "the best" scrambled eggs, pasta, meatballs, or even bacon. She discusses her new cookbook, Obsessed With the Best: 100+ Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-to-Head Tests, in which she records her deeply researched techniques to use to produce maximal flavor with minimum effort.
Cover art courtesy of the publisher

![Last Call For Your New York State Summer Road Trip
[REBROADCAST FROM May 22, 2026] Where would you stop if you were to plan a road trip around New York? Ross Levi, Empire State Development Vice President and Executive Director of New York States Division of Tourism, helps plan your New York State summer road trip and listeners share their favorite destinations.
Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images: A landscape view of the Taconic Parkway, looking southbound, as it winds its way through the rural landscape between the Hudson River Valley and the Catskills, August 18, 2023.
Last Call For Your New York State Summer Road Trip](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/spwiSdrybOk/mqdefault.jpg)
![Indian sitar master Purbayan Chatterjees Kolkata
[REBROADCAST FROM March 27, 2026] Indian sitar master Purbayan Chatterjee performed at this months Get Lit with All Of It event with author Megha Majumdar. This months book selection, A Guardian and a Thief, takes place in Kolkata, a city for which Chatterjee wrote an anthem.
Indian sitar master Purbayan Chatterjees Kolkata](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/suhiUPdkyMw/mqdefault.jpg)
![The Artistry of Traditional Italian Cookies
[REBROADCAST FROM May 8, 2026] For her latest cookbook, Domenic Marchetti traveled around Italy collection recipes for everyones favorite dessert: cookies! She discusses the result, Italian Cookies: Authentic Recipes and Sweet Stories from Every Region (https://bookshop.org/p/books/italian-cookies-authentic-recipes-and-sweet-stories-from-every-region-domenica-marchetti/df15ccbf7a9755cf?ean=9781423668466&next=t) . Plus, listeners share their favorite Italian cookie or Italian bakery.
Cover art courtesy of the publisher The Artistry of Traditional Italian Cookies](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tZzxMdEDw-U/mqdefault.jpg)






![Full Bio: Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
[REBROADCAST FROM August 30, 2022] For our Full Bio series, Gene Jarrett, dean of the faculty and English professor at Princeton, discusses the life and work of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar called, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird.
Full Bio: Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uldIMxEY7aU/mqdefault.jpg)