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One Lunch Lady's Cafeteria Conversion

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Kathy Del Tonto (far right) participates in a class that teaches school cafeteria workers how to prepare meals from scratch.

By Eric Whitney

Originally published on Fri December 28, 2012 5:02 pm

Kathy Del Tonto started cooking school food 30 years ago in the Montrose school district at the foot of Colorado's San Juan Mountains. Back then, the cafeteria workers made everything from scratch.

"My first kitchen that I managed was a little country school out south of town, and we made our own ketchup and everything," she says.

3:18 pm

Fri December 28, 2012

Remembering Fontella Bass, Voice Of A Soul Classic

By Elizabeth Blair

Originally published on Fri December 28, 2012 4:06 pm

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

The voice of a great soul classic has died. Fontella Bass sang the 1965 hit "Rescue Me." She was 72 years old and died from complications caused by a recent heart attack. NPR's Elizabeth Blair has this appreciation.

ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: It's a perfect song with a perfect voice.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "RESCUE ME")

FONTELLA BASS: (Singing) Rescue me. Take me in your arms. Rescue me. I love your tender charms. I'm rather lonely and I'm blue. I need you and your love, too. Come on and rescue me.

3:07 pm

Fri December 28, 2012

'Fifty Shades' Is The One That Got Away. At Least From Me

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E.L. James is a former television executive based in West London. Fifty Shades of Grey is her first novel.

By Lynn Neary

Originally published on Fri December 28, 2012 4:06 pm

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Sometimes "the one that got away" is a book that was easy to overlook. A little gem of a first novel, or a memoir by an unknown writer that unexpectedly captured everyone's imagination.

But sometimes, it's the elephant in the room that you just haven't looked at yet. Everyone knows about it. It's one of the biggest sellers of all time. It's a cultural phenomenon — it's Fifty Shades of Grey. And I ignored it until I couldn't anymore.

3:06 pm

Fri December 28, 2012

Major Port Strike Averted

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Originally published on Fri December 28, 2012 4:06 pm

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A threatened strike by the International Longshoremen's Association at 14 ports along the East and Gulf Coasts has been called off. Federal negotiators say the union has reached an agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance and will extend contract talks.

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1:49 pm

Fri December 28, 2012

Tarantino On 'Django,' Violence And Catharsis

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Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a slave owner, holds Django's wife captive.

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Director Quentin Tarantino has not shied away from painful parts of history. He handled World War II in Inglourious Basterds and now delves into slavery in Django Unchained.

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Originally published on Fri December 28, 2012 4:06 pm

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In Quentin Tarantino's new film, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx plays the title character, a freed slave turned bounty hunter searching for his wife and their plantation tormentors.

As is the case with all of Tarantino's films, Django Unchained is incredibly violent. We spoke to the director before the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., and before critics had taken him to task for the film's brutality. The film also is being debated for the way it brings humor to the story of slavery.

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