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    How are you cooking your Turkey?

    Over at The New York Times, Mark Bittman says that we should stop wasting so much poorly cooked Turkey and focus more on sweet potatoes. And CNN has a cringe-worthy story…

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    By Caitlin Shamberg • Nov 22, 2012 • 1 min read

    Turkey. Photo by jdolenga via Flickr

    Over at The New York Times, Mark Bittman says that we should stop wasting so much poorly cooked Turkey and focus more on sweet potatoes. And CNN has a cringe-worthy story about Twinkie-stuffed Turkey (video of the “Tur-twinkie”is here.) ABC reports on the Butterball Hotline, because “talking turkey is serious business.” But not everyone eats the beloved Thanksgiving bird.

    In fact, Which Way, LA? producer Evan George is one of those. For this deliciously entertaining Good Food segment, he invited Good Food host Evan Kleiman over to his house to try his Soy Ball Vegebest vegan bird and vegan mushroom gravy. You can hear how that went, here:

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      Caitlin Shamberg

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