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August 28, 2010

This week we are re-introduced to one of America's greatest tastemakers: Mark Twain. Andrew Beahrs, author of Twains Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens, joins us. We'll figure out something to do with all that zucchini your friends have been bringing over, and Jane and Michael Stern have found freshly shucked clam pizza at Zuppardi's Apizza in West Haven, CT.

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Book Excerpt: Medium Raw

We're pleased to provide an excerpt of Anthony Bourdain's new book Medium Raw, A Bloody Valentine To The World of Food and The People Who Cook. You can read the entire first chapter "Selling Out."

 

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