How do you cope with a rough day? Perhaps some comfort food? On this edition of B-Side we’re talking about food and coping.

First: B-Side’s Tamara Keith cooks up a pot of her mom’s vegetarian lentil soup and explores food and our relationship to food.

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Then: We visit a bar. It’s the kind of place where you can get a strong drink a disappear. And it seems the appropriate location to do a show about coping.  B-Side explores the things we do to deal with the unexpected, the unpleasant, the sometimes miserable parts of life.

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Elizabeth Chur is a writer and radio producer living in San Francisco.  With Sandy Tolan and the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, she co-produced “Reports from a Warming Planet,” which won a 2006 George Polk Award. She is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Oberlin College. Elizabeth loves hiking, dancing, and jazz. She has a special talent for sleeping on airport floors and granite boulders.