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Thanksgiving roundup
- October 10, 2008 12:17 PM |
- By Tara Kimura
by Tara Kimura, CBCNews.ca
For those celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend, here are some holiday highlights on CBCNews.ca:
- As farmers bring in the last of their crops, we check in with growers across the country.
- Registered dietitian Michelle Gelok offers some healthy Thanksgiving tips and recipes.
- Vegetarians celebrating the fall harvest may want to look at our feature on vegetarian alternatives.
- Ever wonder why turkeys gobble? Find the answer in our Turkey FAQs.
- Professor Heather Evans discusses the intricate manners and meaning of feasts in our Q&A.
- Test your food safety knowledge with our quiz.
- Share your favourite Thanksgiving recipes.
How are you spending the holidays? Are you preparing a big feast or streamlining the festivities? What is your favourite or least favourite part about Thanksgiving dinner?
About the Authors
- Elizabeth Bridge is a producer with CBC's Digital Archives project. She got her start in the kitchen baking brownies and making fudge but is still trying to get pastry right.
- Andrea Chiu
is an associate producer at CBC Radio Digital. Though she loves to eat, cook and discuss food,
don't ask her to bake. It never turns out well. She tweets as @TOfoodie on Twitter and organizes food and wine events in Toronto called FoodieMeet.
- Amber Hildebrandt
works for CBCNews.ca in Toronto. Growing up on a farm in Manitoba, she acquired an insatiable appetite, but it was during a stint in Japan that she developed her discerning tastebuds and foodie ways.
- Tara Kimura
is a multimedia producer for CBCNews.ca.
- Andree Lau
is a CBC web reporter in Calgary. Her journalism career includes seven years as a CBC-TV reporter. Her own blog called "are you gonna eat that?" chronicles her eating adventures (including sampling snake and camel hoof tendon).
- Jessica Wong
is a CBCNews.ca writer who loves to eat and cook, as well as discuss, read and watch programming about food, sometimes all at once.
- Kevin Yarr
, CBCNews.ca's writer in Prince Edward Island, wrote about food and beer for national and regional magazines before joining the CBC. He acquired a desire for new tastes on his first trip to Europe, and an appreciation of eating locally and in season when he finally settled down on P.E.I.
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