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The NPR Culture Desk shares our favorite stories of 2022

This year, our reporting took us to museums, libraries and symphonies; to Edisto Island, Hollywood, New York and beyond. Culture Desk reporters say these are the stories that will stick with them.
<strong>Clockwise from top left:</strong> Marlon Brando in the film The Godfather (1972); Emily Meggett, the author of <em>Gullah Geechee Home Cooking; </em>illustration from Kate Beaton's graphic memoir <em>Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands; </em>America Ferrera (clockwise from top left), Eva Longoria, Rosie Perez, Ivette Rodriguez, Rosario Dawson and Christy Haubegger.

In 2022, we traveled all over the country chronicling the transformation of regional theater, we reported a series on Latinos in Hollywood, we celebrated your family recipes, and we brought you hundreds of recommendations for the year's best books and movies. Now, as we head into 2023, we take a look back at our favorite stories of the year:

Bob Woodward recounts the Watergate story in an art museum

"I loved doing every part of this story for the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. National Portrait Gallery exhibited political cartoons of the day. I invited Bob Woodward (he and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate story in The Washington Post) to see it with me. He told marvelous stories and gossip of the day. When we finished, museum visitors who'd gathered to listen burst into applause." Susan Stamberg, special correspondent

For this 89-year-old Gullah Geechee chef, cooking is about heart

"I was so

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