This Thanksgiving, JPR will offer a bounty of special programming for your enjoyment, including the listener favorite Turkey Confidential with Lynne Rosetto Kasper from The Splendid Table. Read on to see what we've got planned this year.Classics & News Service
Thursday, Nov 27th
10am-Noon - Giving Thanks: A Celebration of Fall, Food & Gratitude
Host John Birge creates a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday. We remember Dr. Maya Angelou, and she shares her Thanksgiving blessing and memories. Nikki Giovanni reads food poems from her new book, and recalls the Thanksgiving she got kicked out of college! Garrison Keillor reads "Minnesota Thanksgiving" by John Berryman, and to celebrate another poet with a centenary in 2014, Dylan Thomas reads his poem of praise "Fern Hill." Also, Simple Gifts from Copland, and a Simple Song from Bernstein. For listeners in the kitchen, on the road, or relaxing after the feast, Giving Thanks provides the perfect atmosphere for Thanksgiving: the warmth of great music, and truly memorable words.
6pm-7pm - Hidden Kitchens World
Hidden Kitchen host Frances McDormand leads us through this rich international collection of stories of land, community and food. Actor Gael Garcia Bernal takes us to his grandmother's Sinoloa kitchen in Mexico. And Salman Rushdie takes us to Chocolate Town. Werner Herzog eats his shoe and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti gives us his recipe for happiness along with a new hour of Kitchen Sisters stories that travel the globe.
Rhythm & News Service
Thursday, Nov 27th
8am - 10am - The Splendid Table's Turkey Confidential
Help is on the way for Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers and dinner guests on this, the biggest cooking day of the year. Lynne Rossetto Kasper, award-winning host of The Splendid Table, will be available to answer listener questions throughout the live, two-hour program. Phone lines (800-248-2828) will be open nationwide from 8am10am and the program will be simulcast live on the Web at splendidtable.org. Scheduled guests include chef Lidia Bastianich, David Leite publisher of Leite’s Culinaria , New York Time’s food columnist Melissa Clark, Carla Hall of ABC’s The Chew , writer Francis Lam and humorist Henry Alford, author of Would it Kill You to Stop Doing That? We'll be playing bingo in the control room. Play bingo along with us! You can download bingo cards at: http://www.splendidtable.org/story/turkey-confidential-bingo-cards.
News & Information Service
Thursday, Nov 27th / Friday, Nov 28th
8am-10am / 8pm-10pm - Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
Planting, Nurturing, Stewardship, Harvest
A series of one-hour programs following five farm families through a year of their work and their lives. The farms are in New England, the South, the Midwest, the high desert West, and northern California. Five Farms puts a personal face on the lives and livelihoods of farmers across the country. We get to know people who work hard and make considerable sacrifices, but who also flourish, and for whom the benefits, including a deep understanding of the land they work, are rich. Through their own voices and direct experiences, we learn details of farming life and get to know members of each family --- their personal struggles, triumphs, hopes, dreams, and challenges. We learn what it takes to farm and produce the food that we count on when we go to the market.
