Sound Bites Drinking Horchata, Listening to Vampire Weekend Listen to the band's "Horchata" while you make the sweet almond drink. BySam Worley Lose Your Blues (While Listening to Them) With This Potato Galette Louis Armstrong's "Potato Head Blues" is perfect music for cooking. BySam Worley How to Have a "Hard Candy Christmas" Make a candy-kissed edible gift while listening to the classic Dolly Parton song. BySam Worley There's Life After Breakfast, But Eat These Tartines First Smoked salmon tartines with fried capers and a soundtrack: Ray Davies's "Is There Life After Breakfast?" BySam Worley Time Changes Everything—Especially Kimchi Listen to a classic Bob Wills song while you're preparing the vegetables for this tangy Korean staple. BySam Worley All That's Left to Do Now Is Drink Some Wine And make short ribs with it. Recommended soundtrack: Jerry Lee Lewis's "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee." BySam Worley "Making Pies" and Soothing the Soul A sad and beautiful baking song by Patty Griffin, paired with a recipe for sweet potato pie. BySam Worley Dance Around the Kitchen to Olu Dara's "Okra" (and Cook It Too!) The jazz cornetist's joyful 1998 song celebrates the stalwart Southern vegetable. BySam Worley The Perfect Friendsgiving Playlist Don't give your fall Friendsgiving party the silent treatment. You need a soundtrack to get things moving. ByTommy Werner These Currant Scones Just Might Save Your Soul Peter, Paul & Mary's song "A Soalin'" celebrates the medieval English tradition of begging for soul cakes—which may be a forerunner to Halloween trick-or-treating. BySam Worley A Song to Cook to: ZZ Top's "TV Dinners" On the heels of Epi's Freezer Week, we'll tell you how to make your own TV dinner. Or is it Netflix dinner? BySam Worley The Best Song To Bake Biscuits To A celebration of good old all-purpose flour, with a complementary recipe: chicken and biscuits. BySam Worley A Slice of Pie and a Cup of Coffee in Honor of Bob Dylan Congrats on the Nobel Prize, Bob! BySam Worley This Week's Song to Cook to: Cibo Matto's "Know Your Chicken" The next step: roast your chicken. We've got the easiest recipe. BySam Worley This Week's Song to Cook to: Corinne Bailey Rae's "Choux Pastry Heart" But are cream puffs really as complicated as love BySam Worley This Week's Song to Cook to: A Tribe Called Quest's "Ham 'N' Eggs" Twenty-five years after the band released their debut album, eggs are cool again. Let's celebrate with a casserole. BySam Worley The Two-Second Way to Build a Kitchen Stereo You're about to turn your kitchen up to 11. ByTommy Werner This Week's Song to Cook to: k.d. lang's "Honey and Smoke" The a new song from case/lang/veirs is this week's musical inspiration for a sultry cocktail. Oh, and a salad, too. BySam Worley
