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Turkey day is tomorrow. Hopefully you’ve begun thawing your behemoths (my was frozen harder that Walt Disney.) Also here’s a tip for all cooks – as I mentioned earlier today – begin drinking – by tomorrow you will develop a wonderful drunken haze that will get you through any emergency. Do you know that aContinue reading “Turkey Roasting Hints and Tips”

Before you go – Kids, don’t let anybody fool you – Turkey is merely the excuse to have delicious stuffing. There are those who will make their stuffing with wild rice, oysters, saltines – I am not here to judge. I will merely present to you the stuffing that has been passed along on myContinue reading “You probably should start drinking”

November 24, 1859 – Charles Darwin was one of the first to formulate an argument for the scientific theory of evolution by means of natural selection, which he wrote about in his book On the Origin of Species. It was first published on November 24, 1859, priced at fifteen shillings with a first printing ofContinue reading “A Monkey’s Uncle”

November 24, 1963 – Extra-terrestrials used mass-hypnosis to persuade the world that someone resembling Jack Ruby had fatally shot someone resembling the person alleged to have been Lee Harvey Oswald on this date. This also became the first actual murder captured on live TV. The next day, November 25, the flag draped coffin containing theContinue reading “Something you don’t see everyday”

November 24, 1958 –A precursor episode to the science fiction television series The Twilight Zone, The Time Element aired on this date as part of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse anthology series on CBS-TV. Though not the pilot episode of Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, it was Rod Serling’s production that lead to The TwilightContinue reading “The Time Element”

A demanding yellow and orange hedonist, with zero qualifications was elected as a protest despite having no experience, no platforms to speak of, no real power — and no opposable thumbs. Mayor Stubbs the cat, was the leader of Talkeetna, Alaska for nearly 20 years (from July 18, 1997 until his death on July 21,Continue reading “Should you run out of safe Thanksgiving dinner conversation”

The difference in dressing and stuffing is fairly obvious to anyone who is not in a tryptophan coma: “Stuffing” is stuffed inside the turkey. “Dressing” is beside the turkey, dressing up the table. (some people in Pennsylvania call it filling, but I digress.) Ingredients-wise, they are the same dish and many people use them interchangeablyContinue reading “Stuffing (Dressing), whatever – it’s all good!”

A Thanksgiving mix-up inspired the first TV dinners. In 1953, a Swanson employee accidentally ordered a colossal shipment of Thanksgiving turkeys (260 tons, to be exact). To deal with the excess, salesman Gerry Thomas took inspiration from the prepared foods served on airplanes. He came up with the idea of filling 5,000 aluminum trays withContinue reading “Do you still eat frozen TV dinners?”

Before you go – Some of you have a love/hate relationship with Potatoes (or carbs, in general). You might love ’em and you find them the essential part of your feast. You might hate ’em because you think they are so caloric. I think you should find them a convenient delivery device for delicious gravyContinue reading “It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.”

Eat a Cranberry Day is celebrated this date each year. It was created in order to promote the health benefits of cranberries. (I have no idea why.) Cranberries are ingredients in more than 1,000 food and beverage products. One of those beverages is the Cosmopolitan. Enough said. Demand Euphoria!