Maricel Presilla, PhD, culinary historian, chef, restaurateur and the author of Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012), offers a recipe and talks about the holidays and the closing her Hoboken restaurant due to the pandemic.
David Sedaris, author and humorist, shares a story from his new collection of stories, The Best of Me (Little, Brown and Company, 2020).
Maeve Higgins, comedian and contributing writer for The New York Times, tries to stump us with questions from the new citizenship exam.
John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast at Slate and contributing editor at The Atlantic, brings his holiday gift of some tricky language questions for listeners to try to answer.
