All Of It with Alison Stewart

Melissa Clark, New York Times food reporter and columnist, has written a new cookbook dedicated to dinner. The Big Book of Dinner: Recipes and Rules (and How to Break Them), includes framework for making dinner recipes, but also advise on how to riff on or break the the rules of the recipe with different flavors or techniques. Clark discusses her ideal dinners and previews Thanksgiving cooking. Listeners share their cooking questions.
When New York Magazine/Vulture features writer Rachel Handler heard that the heir to a chocolate fortune was complaining how Reese's Peanut Butter cups now taste ("inedible," in his view), she began investigating. She discusses what she found: a corporate world of cheaper vegetable oils and substitutes for cocoa butter, and a strange vision for the future of mass-market chocolate.
Photo by: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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Writer and translator Jennifer Croft has been collecting postcards for years, and sending them to her friends, family, and romantic partners. She's used postcards to stay in touch with her grandmother, and to convince an ex to get back together. Now, she writes about the history, power, and personal nature of postcards in her new memoir Notes on Postcards. Croft discusses the book, out on November 10. Listeners share stories about their own relationship to postcards.
Juan Atkins, known as the Godfather of Techno, passed away last week at the age of 64. Fellow Detroit producer Carl Craig called him, "the guy who made techno when nobody was calling it techno." Craig and music journalist Shuja Haider talk about Atkins and the history of techno.
Cover art courtesy of the publisher

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The classic 1935 play from Clifford Odets, "Waiting for Lefty," follows a group of New York City cab drivers who are contemplating a labor strike. The new Classic Stage Company production of the play marks the directorial debut of Steven Pasquale. He discusses the show, alongside actor Tala Ashe, one of the stars of the play. "Waiting for Lefty" runs through November 29.
A new film follows a young Sylvester Stallone as he fights to bring "Rocky" to the big screen. Director Peter Farrelly and stars Anthony Ippolito and AnnaSophia Robb join us to discuss "I Play Rocky," the inspiring true story behind one of Hollywood’s most iconic underdog films.
Film poster courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios

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The new play "Ms. Blakk for President" tells the true story of Terence Alan Smith, AKA Joan Jett Blakk, a drag queen who decided to run for president in the midst of the AIDS crisis. Tina Landau, co-writer and director, discusses the show alongside Ato Blankson-Wood, who stars as Joan Jett Blakk. "Ms. Blakk for President" runs through November 29 at the Vineyard Theatre.
Actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts talks about his recent roles in the films “I Play Rocky” and “The Liberation,” and his work on the Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden.”
'Ms. Blakk for President' production photo by Carol Rosegg

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In a new piece for The New York Times, 30-somethings living in New York City report feeling far behind their parents in major milestones like career development, home ownership, marriage, and having children. They also share that they worry many of those milestones will forever be out of reach. Troy Closson, who covers kids, teens, and young adults in NYC for the New York Times, discusses his piece "Can’t Afford a Home. Can’t Afford a Baby. Can’t Afford Life. This Is 30." Plus, listeners share their own feelings about life in their thirties.
Dan Rimada and Gulce Kilkis spent several years visiting bodega cats across New York City, learning their names, routines, histories, and relationships to the people who run the store. Their stories are told in their new book Bodega Cats of New York: Portraits and Stories from New York City's Working Cats. They join us to talk about the history of bodega cats, efforts to change their legal status, and how they got those great photographs. Listeners call in to celebrate their local bodega cats.

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