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greatest Thanksgiving cooking challenges, savory and sweet. So if you need a new side dish, for example,

or help with your pie dough, we're here to help. Email us at questions at milkstreetradio.com.

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This is Milk Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. A culinary tour of Mexico

usually focuses on tacos, tamales, salsa, and moly.

But for chef Fannie Gerson, it's all about dessert.

Even when I was researching the book, people would find out what I was doing,

and they'd say, you could write a whole book about that.

And in my mind, I was like, we could write a whole encyclopedia about it.

Later on the show, we're highlighting the sweeter side of Mexican cuisine.

But first, a taste of film noir.

I've never seen Thursday be dead or alive.

Well, you know me, Spade.

If you did it or if you didn't, you'll get a square deal for me in most of the breaks.

Don't knows I blame you much, a man that killed your partner, but that won't stop me from nailing you.

Fair enough. But I'd feel better about it if you'd ever drink with me.

That's a scene from the Maltese Falcon. Humphrey Bogart plays Detective Sam Spade, who interrupts Lieutenant Dundee to make a toast.

Success to crime.

Film historian Eddie Muller loves scenes just like this one, where alcohol plays a big role in the smoky nightclubs in dimly lit apartments of film noir.

Eddie's the host of Noir Alley on TCM,

and his latest book is Eddie Muller's Noir,

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