Foodies with wanderlust, take note: Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler for the New York Times, is featured on the Oct. 10 episode of the Splendid Table, a podcast about cooking and eating. You can find the episode here, where you can listen to the entire show or scroll down to hear Matt’s segment.
Matt, whose work I’ve praised before, tells host Lynne Rossetto Kasper about his tactics for finding tasty food while on the road. I especially enjoyed hearing about how he discovered the best dishes in Ho Chi Minh City.
(Thanks to A for the tip.)
As I’ve noted before, I really love podcasts. And I wanted to update the list of my favorite podcasts that I posted last year. So here goes.
First, here are some recent finds; none of these are new, but they’re new to me.
– The Sound of Young America. Tagline: “A Public Radio Show About Things That Are Awesome.” Textism has a good overview of this podcast.
– The Moth‘s format is simple: People get up on stage, without notes, and tell stories about their personal experiences. There’s some wonderful, wonderful stuff here.
– RadioLab. A podcast about science and philosophy. Sometimes it’s a little too experimental, sonically speaking, for me. But the topics are always intriguing.
And then there are my (mostly well-known) favorites: podcasts that I’ve been listening to for a while and still really like:
– This American Life,
– the ESPN Soccernet podcast,
– The New Yorker Out Loud,
– On the Media,
– PRI’s The World, and
– World View, from the New York Times.
Got a favorite podcast to share? Let us know in the comments.
Don’t miss This American Life episode 352: The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar, by reporter Tal McThenia. The show aired on March 14. From the show notes:
In 1912 a four year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found in the hands of a wandering handyman in Mississippi. (The picture [above] was taken just days later.) In 2004, his granddaughter discovered a secret beneath the legend of her grandfather’s kidnapping, a secret whose revelation would divide her own family, bring redemption to another, and become the answer to a third family’s century-old prayer. We devote our entire episode to the story.
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I'm Newley Purnell, an American journalist in Bangkok. I report for Bloomberg BNA, ABC News Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more.