Good Food
Thanksgiving; Meatless Feasting; Hunger Challenge; Eat, Memory
Celebrate Thanksgiving with chef Mark Peel of Campanile and the Brass Sisters. Learn how to enjoy the holiday without eating meat, meet a woman who lets her kids decide what to be thankful for, and eat spiced chocolate cake with pastry chef David Lebovitz. Plus, find out how to fight hunger by taking a unique challenge, enjoy stories of food and memory from the New York Times magazine and get a fresh Market Report with Laura Avery.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenChef Mark Peel prepares Thanksgiving dinner at Campanile, while the Brass Sisters share their favorite memories of the holiday. Patrick Kwan celebrates a meatless Thanksgiving, Carol Meerschaert lets her kids decide what to be thankful for and pastry chef David Lebovitz dishes up warm spiced chocolate cake. Plus, Gayle Keck takes up a unique challenge to fight hunger, Amanda Hesser invites well-known writers to share their food-inspired memories and Laura Avery has a fresh Market Report.
In this episode
8 storiesThe Market Report
Laura Avery chats with Greg Nauta, who explains the difference between yams and sweet potatoes. He says there's no difference, and technically, they are all sweet potatoes. We just call one variety a yam. A true yam grows in the tropics but doesn't grow here.
Read the story7 minMark Peel's Thanksgiving
Mark Peel, chef-owner of Campanile restaurant, talks about his Thanksgiving menu. First, he brines the breast and legs separately. He then roasts the breast and braises the legs.
Read the story8 minThanksgiving with the Brass Sisters
Marilynn and Sheila Brass, known as the Brass Sisters , share Thanksgiving memories and some recipes from their book, Heirloom Cooking With the Brass Sisters : Recipes You Remember and Love. Their PBS show, The Brass Sisters: Queens of Comfort Food, airs on WGBH in Boston.
Read the story7 minA Vegan Thanksgiving
Patrick Kwan goes turkey-free when celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends. He talks about his annual vegan Thanksgiving leftovers party, in which he uses a Tofurkey disguise kit to dress up his faux turkey.
Read the story6 minGrateful for Doritos
Dietician Carol Meerschaert creates new Thanksgiving traditions by letting her kids design the holiday menu. The children choose foods they are thankful for. Music break: Girl From Uganda by Les Baxter
Read the story7 minSpiced Chocolate Cake
Paris-based pastry chef David Lebovitz serves up warm spiced chocolate cake. He was the former pastry chef at Chez Panisse and is the author of Perfect Scoop : Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments and The Great Book of Chocolate .
Read the story7 minHunger Challenge
Gayle Keck fights hunger by taking the Hunger Challenge . The idea is to eat on a very limited food budget by spending only $1 per meal, per person. Gayle works for the San Francisco Food Bank , and it created the Hunger Challenge to bring awareness of people living with hunger.
Read the story7 minEat, Memory
New Times food writer Amanda Hesser talks about memory and food associated with important moments in her book, Eat, Memory : Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times. She also talks about chef Julia Child and the recipe that caused her to fail her Cordon Bleu final examinations.
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