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Food Week continues with a life in the kitchen. Jim Haller was the creative genius behind the Blue Strawbery, the restaurant that made Portsmouth a destination for fine dining. Jim?s written several cookbooks, but his latest book, Vie de France, is an account of a month he spent living in a French village. There, he rediscovered his love of food and preparing a good meal. He?ll talk about his experiences in France and his career in cuisine.

This originally aired in August 2002.

In the 19th and early 20th century, many female mountain climbers braved social convention, and very unwieldy clothing to climb the highest mountains in the world. Many of them have been forgotten over time, but their stories are told in, Women on High, published by Appalachian Mountain Club Books. The author is Rebecca Brown, writer, journalist, and editor of the Littleton Courier.

Kate Young Caley grew up in Moultonboro where her family belonged to a local church. They did, at least, until her mother was dismissed from membership and the family followed her out the door. Now an adult, Kate struggles to understand that event and its impact on her and her family. She chronicles her experience in her book, The House Where the Hardest Things Happened.

We?ll speak with storyteller Rebecca Rule and poets Neil English and Maren Tirabassi. Their new CD Sticky Mittens and Angel Feet is a collection of stories, poems and songs of the season. We?ll sample the CD, and talk about their own celebrations of Christmases past and present.

Stuart Matlins is founder and head of Jewish Lights Publishing in Woodstock, Vermont. He's been called the Ben and Jerry's of Jewish Publishing. Jewish Lights publishes books that cannot be pigeonholed as "Judaica", but, in Stuart's words, "books that reflect the Jewish wisdom and tradition of people of all faiths, all backgrounds." He started the company not long after he moved the small, rural Vermont town and found that he struggled to define what being Jewish meant minus all the trappings of urban Jewish culture. Stuart and his wife founded the Jewish community in Woodstock in 1988 and built a synagogue in 2000.