Dick Stein
Dick Stein joined KNKX in January 1992. He retired in 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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Even I had to laugh. After all my years in the kitchen I'd never had much interest in a cuisine on the very short list of world's greatest. Then a YouTube… -
“I don't know if it's because we've all been feeling extra emotional lately or what,” Nancy Leson told me. “But I've been thinking about the emotional… -
Nancy Leson and I didn't bother with any introductory chitchat to begin this week's show. I hit the music and we were off to the food races. While our… -
I demurred when my wife, the Lovely & Talented Cheryl DeGroot, dared me to use an entire batch of dough to make one gigantic bagel. But then she… -
This just in! Nancy Leson's report on responses to a recent Twitter thread asking “Are you really !#&! tired of cooking?”I was shocked — simply shocked —… -
It's always sounded like fun to have an ice cream machine. But years back I also thought it would be fun to have a fondue pot. See where that's going?… -
Nancy Leson thinks there's more sharing going on these days, especially of food, and I agree. Just down the block from us in East Tacoma a neighbor is… -
Note to the reader: This Food for Thought post about woks is certified to be pun-free.An email from listener Nancy B suggesting we do a show on woks got… -
This story originally aired Aug. 21, 2019. Those colorful bean seeds I traded our cow for worked only too well. No vine to the sky, but plenty of green… -
This story originally aired July 24, 2019. Nancy Leson's apricot tree, a Puget Gold she's had for 21 years, only puts out fruit about every five years.…
