Linda Ronstadt

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  1. 766: Honoring Family and Heritage with Linda Ronstadt and Natalia Molina

    10/13/2023

    766: Honoring Family and Heritage with Linda Ronstadt and Natalia Molina

    This week, we have the iconic musician Linda Ronstadt and her collaborator Lawrence Downes talking about her love of the culture and food of the Sonoran Desert. We hear about the different Sonoran foods and stories from their travels, and she leaves us with her grandmother’s albondigas recipe. Their book is Feels Like Home A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. Then we talk to MacArthur Fellow, Professor Natalia Molina about the restaurant her grandmother ran in the 1950s in Los Angeles, El Nayarit, and how a restaurant can be the heart of a community. Her book is A Place at the Nayarit, How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community.  Broadcast dates for this episode: October 7, 2022 (originally aired)October 13, 2023 (rebroadcast) Celebrate kitchen companionship with a gift to The Splendid Table today.

    50 min
  2. Portrait Of: Linda Ronstadt

    05/12/2023

    Portrait Of: Linda Ronstadt

    We continue to celebrate our 30th anniversary, bringing you the voices of some of the most influential Latinos and Latinas in the last three decades. In this episode, we catch up with music legend Linda Ronstadt, known as the “First Lady of Rock.” We talk to her about her memories growing up in Tucson, Arizona, and her decision to return to the traditional Mexican music of her childhood. Linda brings us into her life after retiring from music, and her memoir “Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands,” which reckons with her family history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    34 min
  3. Eat, Drink and be Merry

    11/21/2022

    Eat, Drink and be Merry

    Jane Pauley hosts our annual "Food Issue." Featured: Luke Burbank on the highlights of cannabis cuisine; Martha Teichner visits Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert; Ben Tracy examines how farmers are adapting to climate change; Seth Doane visits pizza makers in Naples; Holly Williams profiles a Ukrainian chef promoting his country's culinary culture; Jim Axelrod on the rise of halal meats; Elaine Quijano on the Filipino vegetable ube, making inroads in America; Mo Rocca meets the young proprietor of a landmark NYC butcher shop; Kelefa Sanneh samples nonalcoholic wines and cocktails; and David Pogue looks at some "Small Wonders" – baby carrots, microgreens and mini-watermelons.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    56 min
  4. Linda Ronstadt

    10/14/2022 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Linda Ronstadt

    Ronstadt's career spanned rock, pop, country and everything in between. Her most famous recordings include "Heart Like a Wheel," "Desperado," "Faithless Love," and many more. In 2013, Ronstadt revealed that she has Parkinson's disease and can no longer sing. Ronstadt has a new memoir called Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. It's an exploration of her Mexican roots, with recipes of some of the dishes she grew up with. We listen back to her 2013 interview with Terry Gross. Also, Justin Chang reviews Till, a new film about the lynching of Emmett Till.

    45 min
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