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Hosted by independent journalist and food anthropologist, Katherine Spiers (LA Times, LA Weekly, KCET, Eater, How to Eat L.A.). Guests include Anthony Bourdain, Georgia Hardstark, Jacques Pepin, Llewellyn Clarke, Sarah Kuhn, Claudette Zepeda, Jon Garbus, Danny Trejo, Flula Borg and many other compelling people who eat food!
There's no end of ways to tell the future. But most importantly: with cheese.
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History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
"Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches and Witchcraft"
Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia …
Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England, Rhetoric, Science, & Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
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What is "childhood"? When was it invented? The same time as candy canes?
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Are women compared to desserts because they're sweet? Because they're unimportant? And why was everyone so weird about Liv Tyler?
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When two coastal elites explore Midwestern food.
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