Carla Hall’s Soul Food Thanksgiving
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re looking ahead to the big Thanksgiving holiday and family feasts. Carla Hall joins us with a soul food-inspired take on the big day; her latest book is Carla Hall’s Soul Food. Lan Lam from America’s Test Kitchen has a gravy technique that is going to make you a major player in the gravy game. We get a lesson in fixing last-minute dessert disasters from Kristen Miglore, author of Food52’s Genius Desserts. And for your dinner table conversation, Smithsonian curator and anthropologist Logan Kistler explains the wily relationship between mastodons, man and pumpkins. Francis talks with listener Alma from Boston about preparing light appetizers for Thanksgiving guests, and Elizabeth from Washington, DC, who claims she can never cook poultry correctly.
We also have two recipe videos featuring Food52's Kristen Miglore for Secretly Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies and Greek Yogurt Chocolate Mousse. See those videos here.
Broadcast dates for this episode:
- November 16, 2018 (originally aired)
- November 22, 2019 (rebroadcast)
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| 1:18.6 | I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM American Public Media, |
| 1:24.3 | the show for curious cooks and eaters. |
| 1:32.2 | Thank you. Public Media, the show for curious cooks and eaters. Hey, don't you get the feeling that election year thanksgivings are just getting more and more exciting? |
| 1:37.8 | The conversation's more spirited, the marketplace of ideas is playing out by the gravy, |
| 1:42.9 | everyone is ready to explode at each other and |
| 1:44.9 | go home early and hey, you'll get the house clean and get to bed at a decent hour. But if you're |
| 1:51.0 | hoping for a less thrilling Thanksgiving, one more people are just coming together and telling |
| 1:56.9 | each other how grateful they are and having a big dinner and several slices of pie, |
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