Dan Pashman, host of Cooking Channel's Your Eating it Wrong, expands his Sporkful podcast, allowing guests to share useful (and funny!) dos and don'ts for the eating season.
- Mo Rocca and Amy Sedaris share tips for holiday entertaining, covering everything from what music to play to mediating family disputes.
- NY Times Magazine drinks columnist Rosie Schaap brings Dan to her bar, where she offers the perfect cocktail for a fall day in the kitchen (pro tip: not too many!).
- Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich discusses the economics of leftovers and tells the story of the time a turkey tried to put the moves on his wife.
- On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone takes Dan into her kitchen to teach him how to make her trademark Thanksgiving dessert, a Mennonite dish with saltines in it. Everything goes wrong to hilarious effect, but the dish still comes out right.
- Kenji Lopez-Alt of Serious Eats shares bird-brining and basting secrets.
- NY Times food editor Sam Sifton rails against appetizers at Thanksgiving and explains why cloth napkins on the table are the equivalent of a leather interior in a car.