A listener wants to debate whether it's better to combine foods on the fork or in your mouth, a couple disagrees over the correct name for the end of a loaf of bread, and a woman recounts the tale of a Thanksgiving gone awry when an argument broke out over the nature of pesto. Photo: Flickr CC / ttstam
We're back on Madeleine Brand's public radio show in LA, this time talking vegetarian Thanksgiving options. It's something we also explored in a recent episode focused on lessons Indian cuisine can offer for Thanksgiving. More Sporkful Thanksgiving coverage, meaty and otherwise, is right here. /mark
This is a big one, folks, our Second Annual Thanksgiving Show! Because Thanksgiving is such a food-centric holiday, we've pledged to do a Thanksgiving show every year, each time with a different guest and focusing on a different aspect of the holiday. It started last year with a conversationabout brining your turkey and cooking the bird upside down. This year
I dreamed this up last night. Or more precisely, I thought it up, when I saw a slice of turkey and a bag of Chex Mix in my kitchen. Yes, I was drinking. /dan
Thanksgiving is such a food-centric holiday, we're going to cover it every year, each time with a different guest. This year, famed attorney and radio host Ron Kuby joins us for the First Annual Sporkful Thanksgiving Show. Kuby argues against himself in a mock courtroom, presenting the case for and against a turkey up for a presidential pardon. Then he
Outtake - Chestnuts In Turkey Stuffing Listen on Posterous We didn't quite have room in our Thanksgiving conversation with civil rights attorney and radio talk show host Ron Kuby for his thoughts on the pleasure and pain of chestnuts in turkey stuffing. But it's worth a listen. Also, Dan rages against the evil of boiling and I propose stunt doubling of a