Talking Turkey

The roundtable explores: heritage turkeys, why pumpkin pies, why we eat too much, celebrating Thanksgiving in Paris, forty years of food phases and fads in American, and favorite cookbooks. Host Paul Holdengraber, and his guests tell how and where they celebrate Thanksgiving, what they cook, with whom they dine, how the literature they love captures the essence of food, family and other things for which they are grateful. Around the table, quite a line up! * Famed Kentucky poet/farmer/philosopher Wendell Berry talks about America's food supply, his hope for the future, and reads us a poem. * Nationally adored television chef Sara Moulton, longtime executive chef of Gourmet Magazine, and now host of PBS's "Sara's Weeknight Meals" teaches host Paul Holdengr?ber how to cook a special Thanksgiving dish and remembers cooking with Julia Child. * Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker explains how authors such as Trollope, Proust, and Ian Fleming use food as metaphor. Also, why it's the leftovers that matter. * Food historian, Betty Fussell (The Story of Corn) helps us understand where we all stand in the history of Thanksgiving. * Regular roundtable guest, witty writer and artist Maira Kalman keeps us all from getting too soggy with nostalgia by remembering her family Thanksgivings at Howard Johnsons. * Commodore Bernard Warner, Master of Queen Mary 2 and crew members from the Queen Mary 2 describe the hometown dishes they miss the most when they are at sea. LINER NOTES is an eight-part literary/travel series. Aboard QM2, host and raconteur Paul Holdengraber helms roundtable gatherings exploring the many meanings of Place with notable and knowledgeable guests. Each program is appropriate to a holiday or a season, yet evergreen. Shipboard conversations are supplemented with special features recorded ashore. Created by Jon Kalish and Marty Goldensohn, LINER NOTES is now being produced by Marty Goldensohn and Jan Albert, and underwritten by Cunard.

The roundtable explores: heritage turkeys, why pumpkin pies, why we eat too much, celebrating Thanksgiving in Paris, forty years of food phases and fads in American, and favorite cookbooks. Host Paul Holdengraber, and his guests tell how and where they celebrate Thanksgiving, what they cook, with whom they dine, how the literature they love captures the essence of food, family and other things for which they are grateful. Around the table, quite a line up! * Famed Kentucky poet/farmer/philosopher Wendell Berry talks about America's food supply, his hope for the future, and reads us a poem. * Nationally adored television chef Sara Moulton, longtime executive chef of Gourmet Magazine, and now host of PBS's "Sara's Weeknight Meals" teaches host Paul Holdengr?ber how to cook a special Thanksgiving dish and remembers cooking with Julia Child. * Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker explains how authors such as Trollope, Proust, and Ian Fleming use food as metaphor. Also, why it's the leftovers that matter. * Food historian, Betty Fussell (The Story of Corn) helps us understand where we all stand in the history of Thanksgiving. * Regular roundtable guest, witty writer and artist Maira Kalman keeps us all from getting too soggy with nostalgia by remembering her family Thanksgivings at Howard Johnsons. * Commodore Bernard Warner, Master of Queen Mary 2 and crew members from the Queen Mary 2 describe the hometown dishes they miss the most when they are at sea. LINER NOTES is an eight-part literary/travel series. Aboard QM2, host and raconteur Paul Holdengraber helms roundtable gatherings exploring the many meanings of Place with notable and knowledgeable guests. Each program is appropriate to a holiday or a season, yet evergreen. Shipboard conversations are supplemented with special features recorded ashore. Created by Jon Kalish and Marty Goldensohn, LINER NOTES is now being produced by Marty Goldensohn and Jan Albert, and underwritten by Cunard.