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About Valerie Saint-Rossy
NBN Episodes hosted by Valerie:
April 7, 2021
Stories My Father Told Me
Family stories are the texture of the human fabric. From every land, from every time, they bring the past to life for young ears. In the beginning…
July 26, 2018
Bound to the Fire
The concept of “Southern hospitality” began to take form in the late eighteenth century and became especially associated with Virginia’s grand plantat…
July 2, 2018
Where the Wild Coffee Grows
Is life without coffee possible? Before you answer, first admit that you know almost nothing about the plant that you depend on to deliver you conscio…
May 22, 2017
Nothing Fancy
Diana Kennedy, Nothing Fancy: Recipes and Recollections of Soul-Satisfying Food (University of Texas Press, 2016). Don't be misled by this title. Its …
May 14, 2017
We Are As Gods
Growing up in a geodesic dome is not a claim everyone can make, but author Kate Daloz can. Her book We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on a…
May 14, 2017
Food on Foot
Napoleon famously stated that an army marches on its stomach. Of no less importance is the food that keeps exploration moving, whether polar, desert, …
March 31, 2016
Darjeeling
Darjeeling tea, like other members of its artisanal tribe serrano peppers, Champagne, and grana padano,exists through a combination of intimate unders…
April 24, 2015
The Bells in Their Silence
Despite being Germany's most famous literary lion, in 1786 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had to jump on a mail coach incognito to begin his travels to It…
February 19, 2015
The Cuban Table
If Cuba will soon be a travel destination for Americans, what do we think we know about this neighbor that is so close geographically (93 miles south …
December 26, 2014
French Country Cooking
"How do you govern a country that produces 365 kinds of cheese?" What puzzled Charles de Gaulle inspired Francoise Branget, the author of French Co…
June 13, 2014
Chop Suey
Through some quirk of fate, the Hobbesian tag "filling, cheap, and familiar" is probably the defining phrase used when Americans think of Chinese food…