For five years Davia’s father, Lenny Nelson, asked her to go to Rattlesden, England, to visit the Air Force base where he was stationed during WWII and to find an old photograph hanging in the town pub honoring his 8th Air Force squadron. It was still there, over 50 years later, he told her. Finally, one fine Sunday, Davia headed out in search of the pub and a piece of her father’s past—the piece he was proudest of.
Lenny died on Christmas Eve 2015. In his honor, we share the journey with you.
Samuel Shelton Robinson helped produce this story with The Kitchen Sisters. He’s from London. It seemed only right.
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80 – Thad Vogler: A Short History of Spirits
79 – Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table
78 – The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: No Tongue Can Tell
77 – New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
76 – Liberace and the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band
75 – The Making Of a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck and More Stories
74 – What Is It About Men and Meat and Midnight and a Pit?
73 – Basque Sheepherders Ball
72 – Warriors vs Warriors
71 – Hidden Kitchen Gaza: A Palestinian Culinary Journey
70 – The Egg Wars
69 – The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
68 – Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
67 – The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey
66 – Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Hidden Kitchen
65 – Sam Phillips, Sun Records, and the Acoustics of Life
64 – Kimchi Diplomacy: Hidden Kitchens – War and Peace and Food
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