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Mo Rocca on My Grandmother’s Ravioli
Mo Rocca is a consummate berättare. The CBS Sunday Morning correspondent has a wonderful ability to color unique profiles of everything from actresses to presidential pets. As a frequent panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! Rocca also displays his intense curiosity and knowledge for amerikansk kultur. Those two skills comes tillsammans in his Cooking Channel program, My Grandmother’s Ravioli, now in its third season, in which he exalts humble home cooking to tell stories of history, culture and family.
Rocca filmed three upcoming episodes of Ravioli in Minnesota, the first of which premieres this evening (episode capsules and air dates at the end of the interview). He recently took a few minutes to chat with Heavy Table about aebleskiver technique, rotten shark, and the art of the tater tot hot dish.
HEAVY TABLE: Before My Grandmother’s Ravioli, you had previously hosted Food(ography) as well as sti
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Junior Prom or Memorable Moment: The Radio Television Correspondents Association Dinner
Just because some in the Washington press corps refer to it as “Junior Prom” doesn’t mean the Radio & Television Correspondents Association Dinner hasn’t had its share of memorable moments.
President George Bush at 2008 RTCA Dinner
In 2008, even its entertainer/host Mo Rocca dissed the RTCA dinner, calling it the Nicky (Hilton) to the White House Correspondent Dinner’s Paris. And indeed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (aka “Senior Prom”) in recent years has bigger celebrities (the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Pamela Anderson, Ben Affleck and Mariska Hargitay), more of them and more-buzzed about pre- and post-parties. betalningsmedel out some of the pics from last year here.
The RTCA dinner is now in its 65th year. It’s Hollywood quotient in the last decade was mostly limited to activist actors Ron Silver and Al Franken and hip
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Mo Rocca: Keynote Speaker
Introductory remarks from President Karen R. Lawrence
…And now I would like to introduce our distinguished speaker for this 88th commencement at Sarah Lawrence College. Many of you know Mo Rocca as a correspondent for the newsmagazine CBS Sunday Morning, where he profiles leading figures in the arts and politics and contributes his unique brand of satirical commentary. But his career can hardly be confined to a single occupation, or even a single discipline. Although a graduate of Harvard University, Mo is the sort of polymath that we so often associate with a Sarah Lawrence graduate. A humorist, an actor, an author, an Emmy-award winning writer, and a history buff, he is quite possibly the only person in attendance today to possess a framed ticket to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial, to say nothing of his Ike and Mamie Eisenhower iced tea glasses, or his L.B.J. and Lady Bird Johnson tableware.
But I digress.
Mo’s career, which i