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9:30 am 

Baking with Julia   Guest Martha Stewart returns to complete her three-tiered wedding cake decorated with yellow buttercreme icing and handmade marzipan fruit in this episode of BAKING WITH JULIA. In this second of a two-part episode, Stewart puts together the individual cakes that serve as the building blocks of this dessert, inserting a baked crunchy almond and egg white wafer and apricot jam between individual layers and decorating with the icing and candy fruit garnish. D

10:00 am 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Coconut Layer Cake"  Host Christopher Kimball reveals the test kitchen tips for foolproof cake baking. Then, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Kimball how to make the ultimate coconut layer cake. And finally, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Kimball to a tasting of premium butter. D

10:30 am 

New Jewish Cuisine with Jeff Nathan and Friends  "Cakes to Die For"  Chef Jeffrey Nathan tantalizes his friends with his mouthwatering cakes, including his secret recipe babka and a strawberries and cream sponge cake. D

11:00 am 

Democracy In America  "Citizenship: Making Government Work"  This program introduces basic concepts of government, politics, and citizenship. It explores the tension between maintaining order and preserving freedoms, the essential role of politics in addressing the will of the people, and the need for citizens to participate in order to make democracy work. D

11:30 am 

Democracy In America  "Constitution: Fixed Or Flexible?"  This program examines the search for balance between the original Constitution and the need to interpret and adjust it to meet the needs of changing times. It explains the original Jeffersonian-Madisonian debate, the concept of checks and balances, and the stringent procedures for amending the Constitution. D

12:00 pm 

Growing Old in a New Age  "How The Body Ages"  Experts describe the universal physical changes that accompany aging and explain how deterioration can be prevented. Researchers describe advances in cellular studies and the search for biomarkers of aging. D

1:00 pm 

Arts In Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers, The  "Workshop 4. Creating A Multi-Arts Performance Piece"  Learner Team members and students examine the elements of the classic journey as identified by Joseph Campbell. They then create a multi-arts performance piece that represents a journey story. They apply what they have learned in previous lessons in order to rehearse, critique, revise, and perform their work. D

2:00 pm 

Teaching Channel   Teaching Channel takes you inside America's K-12 classrooms with 3 short documentaries that showcase inspiring and effective teaching practices. Visit a school where Spanish immersion has taken learning to a deeper level. Watch a 2nd grade teacher demonstrate her techniques for making the classroom a safe learning space. D

3:00 pm 

Invitation to World Literature  "The Thousand and One Nights"  Shahrazad must hold the interest of her despotic husband the sultan with nightly tales, lest she lose her life in the morning. This wellspring of storytelling, circulating from medieval Persia to Egypt to Iraq, like its wily raconteur lives on in many modern adaptations. Art, performance, and film images are employed to show the collection's broad span of influence. D

3:30 pm 

Invitation to World Literature  "The Epic of Gilgamesh"  The first known human story is that of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Images of artifacts from ancient Iraq mix with beautiful illustrations, dance, and costume to tell of the relations between gods and mortals, the search for friendship, love, and immortality. Featured cast members include Assyriologist Ben Foster, comic book illustrator Jim Starlin, and poet and playwright Yusef Komunyakaa. D

4:00 pm 

Ethics In America  "Truth On Trial"  Is an attorney's first obligation to the court, the client, or the public? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Judge Robert Merhige, attorneys Floyd Abrams and Stanley Chesley, philosopher John Smith, and others debate civil litigation's ethical dilemmas.G

5:00 pm 

Katie Brown Workshop  "Chocolate"  Join Katie and the Workshop crew as they pay tribute to chocolate with a chocolate spice cake, chocolate chunks and three takes on chocolate mousse. Projects: glittery brown napkin rings and a decorative pinecone garland. D

5:30 pm 

Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen  "Everybody Loves Chocolate"  Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make classic chocolate cream cupcakes at home. next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of hot cocoa, and finally, Julia Collin Davison updates an American favorite, Texas sheet cake. D

6:00 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Triple-Chocolate Mousse Cake"  Host Christopher Kimball demystifies chocolate varieties and reveals which brands the test kitchen recommends. Then, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Kimball how to make the ultimate triple chocolate mousse cake. Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Kimball to a tasting of white chocolate, and equipment expert Adam Ried reviews innovative teapots in the equipment corner. D

6:30 pm 

Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage  "Rosedown Plantation"  One of the most extravagant houses in the Old South was Rosedown Plantation in West Feliciana Parish. Mary Thompson, the great-, great-granddaughter of the builders of this home, gives us a glimpse of a lifestyle that is now "gone with the wind." The English are notorious for mixing their liquor with sweets. D

7:00 pm 

Ciao Italia  "Thanks, Mom - Grazie, Mama"  Mary Ann receives a prestigious award honoring her as an Italian American food educator. She goes nella cucina to make "Mom's Sponge Cake" as her way of honoring the people in her life who helped make this award possible: her late mother who inspired her to cook, and the Ciao Italia culinary supervisors who support her in her television kitchen. D

7:30 pm 

Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen  "The Chemistry of Cakes"  Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make a perfect lemon Pudding cake with a custardy filling. next, equipment expert Adam Reid is reviewing hand mixers. then, Erin McMurrer reveals the seven steps to making foolproof angel Food cake at home, and finally, Adam uncovers the test kitchen's pick for a tube pan. D

8:00 pm 

Baking with Julia   Mary Bergin of Las Vegas, Nevada, head pastry chef for Wolfgang Puck' s Spago Restaurant, demonstrates how to make a vanilla chiffon cake with a twist -- a full vanilla flavor and a thin, flexible shape, ideal for rolling with chocolate-laced walnut mousse. D

8:30 pm 

Bake Decorate Celebrate!  "Fantasy"  Be inspired by fantasy masterpiece cakes. The first cake demonstrated is a tiered cake representing a city scape that can be adapted for any home town. Next, is a 3D dragon cake for the young and young at heart. D

9:00 pm 

Baking with Julia   Martha Stewart, a magazine editor, star of her own television show and author of the popluar "Weddings" book joins Julia to bake one grand and glorious three-tiered wedding cake. Martha prepares the batter and bakes each layer in graduated diamond-shaped cake forMs. While the cake bakes, and then chills, Martha creates a variety of delicately realistic and delicious marzipan fruits, right down to the little stems and leaves. She also makes and chills enough vanilla rum buttercream to ice the entire cake. D

9:30 pm 

Baking with Julia   Guest Martha Stewart returns to complete her three-tiered wedding cake decorated with yellow buttercreme icing and handmade marzipan fruit in this episode of BAKING WITH JULIA. In this second of a two-part episode, Stewart puts together the individual cakes that serve as the building blocks of this dessert, inserting a baked crunchy almond and egg white wafer and apricot jam between individual layers and decorating with the icing and candy fruit garnish. D

10:00 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Coconut Layer Cake"  Host Christopher Kimball reveals the test kitchen tips for foolproof cake baking. Then, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Kimball how to make the ultimate coconut layer cake. And finally, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Kimball to a tasting of premium butter. D

10:30 pm 

New Jewish Cuisine with Jeff Nathan and Friends  "Cakes to Die For"  Chef Jeffrey Nathan tantalizes his friends with his mouthwatering cakes, including his secret recipe babka and a strawberries and cream sponge cake. D

11:00 pm 

Social Studies In Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12  "Public Opinion and the Vietnam War"  Liz Morrison is a ninth–grade American history teacher at Parkway South High School in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. In a lesson on the Vietnam War, Ms. Morrison explores how public opinion was shaped by key events. D

11:30 pm 

Social Studies In Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12  "Migration from Latin America"  Mavis Weir teaches 10th–grade history at Casa Grande High School in Petaluma, California. In this lesson, students explore the various reasons people emigrate from their homeland. The class is broken up into six separate groups, each representing a different Latin American country with its own set of resources. D