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Monday, November 21, 2011

Thanksgiving With the 0.5 Percent

How to prepare Thanksgiving for the oddest of dinner guests—the vegan.

If you’re like 97 percent of the country, chances are that your main meal this Thursday will include turkey—or beef, pork, ham, chicken, fish or some other kind of meat. For the remaining 3 percent of Americans, there won’t be any meat on the Thanksgiving dinner plate—they’re vegetarian (according to a 2008 study published by the Vegetarian Times). Maybe they’ll have spinach soufflé, four-cheese lasagna, cream of mushroom soup and pumpkin pie à la mode. But, for 0.5 percent of the country, even these vegetarian delicacies will be out, because this group is vegan. (Or perhaps meat- and lactose-intolerant.) Those poor vegans, consigned to a life of barley and turnips, dandelion greens and fungi, all washed down with lashings of hot patchouli…

Friday, September 16, 2011

Top Chef Finalist Carla Hall Chats About Her New Talk Show

"The Chew" will premiere Sept. 26 on ABC.

So how do you get people who've turned away from cooking back into the kitchen? Carla Hall, the popular Washington, D.C., chef and artisan cookie company owner who attracted legions of fans with her appearances on Top Chef, hopes that her new daytime talk-and-cooking show will lure viewers who've grown bored of cooking or feel they're too busy, back to the kitchen—reminding them of how food brings people together. Hall is one of five co-hosts of The Chew, which premieres on ABC on Sept. 26. The other hosts include Mario Batali, Clinton Kelly, Michael Symon, and Daphne Oz. The concept of The Chew is that the hosts talk and visit while they cook. The show is filmed live, and Hall said that the show will include guests. The idea is to give …

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