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star of PBS's A Chef's Life and Somewhere South

and how to keep everything relatively clean

Flora Calhoun has a reputation for sticking her nose where it doesn't belong

A foreign correspondent in Moscow at the time

and a search for the one — maybe two — people who could clear his name

Hot Time in the Old Town the naturals star of PBS's A Chef'sOne of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe. As historian Edward P. Kohn shows, Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a