And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks.

I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people to make

informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights.

You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our

websites, W.w.w. Compassionate cooks.com and

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joy of vegan baking.com. I don't know why but it feels like it's been a long time since I've

recorded an episode even though it's not. It was like a week ago. So anyway, hi everybody I hope you're all doing well. I'm very

excited to announce that Veg News magazine named my new cookbook The Joy of

vegan baking cookbook of the, which is pretty awesome. And I just wanted to let you

know. I really appreciate the response the book has been getting and I really appreciate

all of you who've posted reviews on Amazon and on your blogs and I encourage

you to keep spreading the word. Word of mouth is a very powerful thing and it's one of the best ways

to help spread the word and to let everybody else know about the book.

So thank you for doing so and I'm really very honored.

There are a lot of fantastic cookbooks out there and I'm very honored that Veg News named our cookbook, my cookbook, a cookbook of the year.

First of all, today's podcast sponsor wanted to remain anonymous, but he requested this topic many many months ago so even though I did

tackle Thanksgiving in a previous episode I wrote it knowing that I would be

writing one specifically on Thanksgiving menus on what to eat

and what to serve etc. So Mr. Anonymous sponsor you know who you are and I know who

you are and I thank you for your sponsorship and for your topic

request because I think it's a really good one and I think it will hopefully

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