Hey, Milkstreet Radio listeners, for our Thanksgiving episode this year, we want to tackle your

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.

One more time. Thanksgiving questions, please send them to questions at milkstreetradio.

com. Thanks.

This is Milk Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.

YouTube creator James Hoffman has strong opinions about coffee.

He cares, of course, about the flavor of the beans.

It should have some clear personality to it.

He also has a lot to say about seemingly straightforward details like water.

Mineral content has a really appalling, depressing impact on the cup of coffee that you make.

Today, James Hoffman on the best and worst ways to make a cup of coffee.

That's coming up later in the show.

First, it's my interview with Don and Pedy Clydstrip about Charles Heitzik,

the man who taught America to love champagne.

Their book is called Champagne Charlie.

Don and Pedy, welcome to Milk Street. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Pleasure.

We're talking champagne, especially the American side of the pond in the 19th century.

But before we do that, you tell the history of champagne, and you start off with something

that was amazing that was Don Perignon worked strenuously, your words, to keep bubbles out

of his champagne.

Bubbles were considered a fault.

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