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How to Cook Noodles Asian-Style

Chef Nina Simonds iis a regular contributor to "Gourmet" and "Eating Well" magazines. She's studied cooking in Taiwan and in France and is the author of four books on Chinese cuisine and culture. Her latest cookbook is "Asian Noodles: Deliciously Simple Dishes to Twirl, Slurp and Savor" (Hearst Books).

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 2, 1997: Interview with Wil Haygood; Interview with Nina Simonds; Review of Deborah Coleman's album "I Can't Lose."
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Boston Globe Journalist Returns to His Ancestral Home of Columbus, Ohio

Haywood has written a new memoir, "The Haygoods of Columbus" about his family, and growing up in Columbus, Ohio in the mid 60s and 70s. He lived adjacent to Mount Vernon Avenue, the center of Columbus' Black community. Haygood moved back to Columbus to write the book. Haygood has also written a biography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and "Two on the River" a lyrical recollection of a two-thousand mile journey down the Mississippi.

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