B-Side: Food and Coping
Posted Saturday September 1, 2007
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 “




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