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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC
Eggnog aired on Nov. 18, 2003 and Dec. 1, 2004, on WCAI & WNAN
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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC Eggnog aired on Nov. 18, 2003 and Dec. 1, 2004, on WCAI & WNAN PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST and can read something like this: This is Ali Berlow, join me for A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives, here on --------.... Accompanying recipes are available at www.cooksnotebook.com
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Frank's been looking forward to the cold weather settling in on Lichen Rock Farm, up in Vermont. And on a steely afternoon in mid November - after mucking the stalls and feeding the horses - he cleans out his old ceramic crock-pot. He's ready to make his specialty for the holidays now that he's hoarded enough eggs from his chickens. It takes about two dozen good ones to mix up a batch of eggnog. He sort of follows a recipe that's been handed down by the Southern gentlemen in his family, the ones from Georgia. And if he gets the eggnog done before Thanksgiving, it'll be perfect for Christmas and New Year's - that is, if the dogs don't get to it first.
Since living up north he's adjusted the recipe to suit his own sensibilities and take advantage of the cold weather. He only uses eggs from his free-range, organic birds. That way he knows where they come from and what they've been eatin...
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