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Today Leonard talks with Italian food expert Lou Di Palo, the owner of his favorite cheese shop, Di Palo’s Fine Foods in Little Italy.

The food blog Serious Eats described Di Palo’s Fine Foods a “100-year-old Italian specialty market with incredible mozzarella and fresh porchetta. Expect long waits, but they’re worth it.” Chef Daniel Boulud has called Di Palo one of the seven wonders of New York.

“Di Palo’s stories come from the gathering of the food, the discovery of where it was made,” wrote Kenneth Rapoza of Forbes. “It’s not so much about the taste, but what makes it taste that way in the first place. So it all inevitably comes down to the air and the water and the grass and the sheepherder he’s met that led him to the perfect little farm, that made the perfect little cheese, somewhere south of Trentino.”

Leonard’s conversation today is with Dr. Ted Rueter on noise, specifically noise pollution in the city. Dr. Ted Rueter started Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet while he was a political science professor at UCLA. “I found UCLA to be the loudest campus I had ever been to.” Today,  Dr. Rueter will talk to Leonard about noise pollution in New York City, particularly that caused by motorcycles.

Today, Leonard’s conversation is with Itamar Kubovy, the executive producer for Pilobolus dance company.

Pilobolus  mission is to “create, perform, and preserve dances, applying the collaborative creative methods of Pilobolus; expand and diversify audiences through projects of all types and scales in live performance, film, and digital media, characterized by the qualities of our namesake fungus—adventurous, adaptive, athletic, surprising and revealing of beauty in unexpected places and to Teach dancers, non-dancers, and organizations how to harness the creative potential of groups using Pilobolus’s methods.”

 

Today on Leonard Lopate At Large Leonard has a conversation with Wendy Brawer And Charles Krezell On Green Activism In New York

Eco-designer and public educator Wendy Brawer created of the Green Map System, the first resource of its kind, back in 1992 to raise local awareness of environmental issues in the New York area. In the years since, green maps have become a critical tool for conservationists around the world. Charles Krezell is the founder and president of LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) and is a member of DeColores Community Garden on East 8th Street, where he has been an active East Village gardener since 1996.

On today’s Leonard Lopate At large, Leonard talks with Lisa Meron, Chris Hardee and Mary Booth: Burned

Join Leonard for a discussion with the filmmakers of “BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?” a new documentary which takes an unwavering look at the latest energy industry solution to climate change. Woody biomass has become the fossil-fuel industry’s renewable, green savior. The film focuses on the people and parties who are both fighting against and promoting its adoption and use.

Today, Isaac Shapiro joins Leonard in conversation about living in Japan during World War II

Isaac  Shapiro was in his early teenage years when he experienced the American fireboming of Japan firsthand in the early 1940s, as he describes in his autobiography “Edokko: Growing Up a Foreigner in Wartime Japan.” With World War II suddenly at their doorstep, Isaac’s family was forced to move from city to city in the war-torn nation. After US troops began their Japanese occupation, he was hired at the age of 14 to be an interpreter for a U.S. Marine Colonel from Arkansas, a job that led him on a circuitous path to America.

Today, Leonard has a conversation with Monona Rossol, chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist, and the founder and of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing health and safety services to the arts, and the Health and Safety Director for the Local 829, Union of the United Scenic Artists International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Today Monona will talk to Leonard about the dangerous toxins we encounter in our daily lives.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard talks to Jonathan Berman Director Of Calling All Earthlings

“For those who have ever wondered about that domed white, flying saucer-shaped structure perched on a particularly sparse patch of Landers, Calif., the provocative, documentary, ‘Calling All Earthlings,’ heeds the call.

Today  UFO believers and skeptics will hear a lively discussion with Jonathan  about what the latest research and first-hand accounts tell us about the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe.

Today, on Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard’s guest is Seymour Hersh, a man who changed the course of US history with his reporting at least twice. An American journalist whose reporting has generally focused on the U.S. government and its involvement abroad. Noted for his investigations into the My Lai Massacre and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

In the course of his career, Hersh has been the recipient of numerous honors. In addition to a Pulitzer Prize, he also garnered five George Polk Awards. The memoir Reporter was published in 2018.

On todays show Leonard talks about artisanal cheesmaking with Rory Chase and Jonathan White

Chaseholm Farm Creamery is a grass-based dairy farm nestled in a 350-acre patchwork of pastures, crop land, woods and waterways located just outside of Pine Plains, NY.

The Creamery was founded in 2007 when Rory Chase returned home to the farm and started making cheese, retrofitting a barn his grandfather built in the early 1930s to serve as a cheesemaking plant and aging cave. It is one of only a handful of Farmstead outfits producing cow’s milk cheese from their farm’s own herd in the state of New York.

Bobolink Dairy was founded by Nina and Jonathan White in 2002, on leased farmland, before the pair eventually moved their operation to a 186-acre farmstead in Milford, NJ in March of 2010.

Each season, the dairy milks approximately 50 cows with a bumper crop of young heifers and bulls of their own new breed, the Bobolink Blacks, which are the result of crossing several common “modern” dairy breeds (Ayrshire, Guernsey, Jersey and others) with the ancient Kerry cattle of Ireland.

On Friday’s “Leonard Lopate at Large” Rory Chase and Jonathan White will give Leonard a masterclass in artisanal cheesemaking.