Fresh Air, Laura Rozen, June 20, 2007

By: Terry Gross

Narrated by: Terry Gross

Hear journalist Laura Rozen, food and wine columnist Russ Parsons, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air.

Laura Rozen reports on national security and foreign policy from Washington, D.C., as a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a contributor to the Washington Monthly, the Boston Globe, The Economist, the Forward, USA Today, Wired, and other publications. She also writes a political blog, warandpiece.com. She talks about the philosophical split within the Bush administration on how to curb nuclear proliferation in Iran. Part of the administration believes in regime change, while the other part advocates for behavior change.

Then Russ Parsons, whose new book is called How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table. He writes that we are almost encouraged not to know very much about the fruits and vegetables we buy. Parsons goes in search of top quality produce and looks at the reasons why supermarket produce is not always the best. The book is a guide to picking, storing, and cooking fruits and vegetables.

Finally, Kevin Whitehead reviews Pilgrimage, the posthumous recording from tenor sax player Michael Brecker who died earlier this year due to leukemia. The album features jazz greats like Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny. [Broadcast Date: June 20, 2007]

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