Dick Stein
Dick Stein joined KNKX in January 1992. He retiredin 2020 after three decades on air. During his storied radio career, he hosted the morning jazz show, co-hosted and produced "Food for Thought" with Nancy Leson and wrote and directed the Jimmy Jazzoid live radio musical comedies and 100 episodes of Jazz Kitchen.
Dick's previous occupations include the USAF, radio call-in show host, country, classical and top-40 DJ, chimney sweep, window washer and advertising copywriter. He is married to nationally noted metalsmith, jewelry designer and cowgirl “Calamity” Cheryl DeGroot.
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The other day DeGroot came home with a package of Beyond Meat hamburger, a product I'd been flirting with for some time but never did get around to…
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Nancy Leson's been reading Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle's column about why the Betty Crocker cookbooks of the '50s and the shopping practices…
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Food for Thought listener David sent me a recipe for something he calls "Splayed Potatoes," which not only looked good to eat but fun to make. Though I…
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This story originally aired June 5, 2019. While browsing recipes at the station last week, Daniel Gritzer's savory vegetable galette caught my eye. Leeks,…
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Originally aired July 25, 2018.This is not a weeknight recipe. Both Nancy Leson's and my emails crossed in the cybersphere. "Let's make this!" It was J.…
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This week Nancy Leson and I look at some long accepted cooking rules that just don't hold up. My first entry was the prohibition against putting a certain…
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For a real New England style seafood roll, you need a New England style hot dog bun, also called a split-top. As you can see from the picture above, they…
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Flame away, but I'm just not a dog person. It's cats for me. They're the superior animal anyway, as our cats would tell you if they could just be…
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These days when we're all staying home so much, Nancy Leson loves cookbooks that take her away. “I like the ones that make me feel like I'm traveling,…
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Nancy Leson thought I might be using all this stay-at-home time to reorder my kitchen. “Are you alphabetizing your spices?”she snarked. I explained that…