Around Cincinnati

Chef, cookbook author, and host of PBS’ Simply Ming, Ming Tsai, recently returned to his native Ohio and stopped by the WVXU studios to talk with Robyn Carey-Allgeyer. He discussed his East meets West cooking philosophy, the success of his TV show, and his newest cookbook, Simply Ming in your Kitchen.

Barbara Gray welcomes Sandy Gross and Leah Busch from Cincinnati’s Brazee Street Studios, which houses 25 local artists and offers classes in glass art. They are now moving into children’s books with their new Toast to Counting, the first in a series of board books to inspire creativity in children.

Lee Hay turns the tables on our contributor Jim Stump and interviews him about his day job as artistic director of the New Edgecliff Theatre and their upcoming double-header production of David Sedaris’ The Santa Land Diaries and Ginna Hoben’s The 12 Dates of Christmas.