Recipes and Revolutions

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 21, 2011

First, Fran Drescher talks about her career, her personal struggles, and her new children’s book. Then New York Times’ Dining Section columnist Melissa Clark stops by to announce the winners of our Thanksgiving side dish recipe swap! We’ll speak with the winners. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert Massie tells about the life and reign of Catherine the Great. Dava Sobel explains how Copernicus revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos.

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