On Second Thought For Wednesday, February 15, 2017

There’s a major climate change conference on Thursday in Atlanta. It’s happening at the Carter Center, but only because it was canceled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We talked with Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association, who is giving the keynote address at the conference. We also checked in with environmental journalist Peter Dykstra of Environmental Health News.

Many couples on Valentine’s Day bonded over a hearty meal. Food is an integral part of the South’s identity, and all this year, we’re paying homage to Southern cuisine. It’s a series we call Georgia Eats. A lot of chefs and food writers know the name Mrs. S.R. Dull. In 1928, she wrote the book "Southern Cooking," which has been described as the "bible" of Southern cooking. That got us thinking if there are any other cookbooks that rise to that level. We asked Savannah-based food writer Damon Fowler, Denver-based food historian Adrian Miller, and Judith Winfrey of Atlanta-based PeachDish.

Millions of Jews were displaced by the Holocaust in the 1930s and '40s. Many survivors were forced to find new homes and rebuild their lives on foreign shores in the aftermath of World War II. Author Jonathan Rabb explores this difficult transition in his new novel, “Among The Living.”  The book is set in 1947 when concentration camp survivor Yitzhak Golden travels to Savannah. His new life in Georgia demands that he face complex divisions within Savannah's Jewish community. Author Jonathan Rabb will be a featured writer at the 2017 Savannah Book Festival this weekend. We revisited a conversation with Rabb from last fall about his new book.