Food Network stars answer your Thanksgiving questions
BY NICOLE MARSHALL MIDDLETON World Scene Writer
Friday, November 16, 2012
Food Network experts, including Oklahoma’s own Ree Drummond, come together Sunday to help viewers avoid holiday meal-making mishaps on “Thanksgiving Live,” a two-hour, interactive show.
The show is hosted by Alton Brown and will air from 11 to 1 p.m. Sunday.
Drummond and Sunny Anderson, Giada De Laurentis, Bobby Flay, Alex Guarnaschelli, Rachael Ray and Aarón Sanchez join Brown in the kitchen to answer viewers’ questions and offer real-time remedies for Thanksgiving Day disasters.
The culinary experts will also offer helpful hints, time-saving tips and originals recipes to help keep every home cook cool in the kitchen on Thanksgiving.
“Response to last year’s first-ever ‘Thanksgiving Live’ was tremendous, and we are thrilled to bring the Food Network dream team of culinary experts back to offer the best holiday food and entertaining advice, tips and tricks,” said Bob Tuschman, general manager and senior vice president of Food Network.
Brown and the help of Food Network experts, will take viewers’ Thanksgiving questions about purchasing the turkey and preparing the dressing, picking wine and selecting the best decorations.
Viewers can submit questions in advance via Facebook — facebook.com/foodnetwork — and Twitter — twitter.com/foodnetwork use #ThanksgivingLive — and also submit questions during the broadcast.
The Food Network team will be answering the Top 10 Thanksgiving questions from Skype submissions — username: FoodNetworkThanksgiving.
Complementing the on-air broadcast, Food Network will serve up a three-hour “Thanksgiving Live!” webcast at FoodNetwork.com.
Beginning at 10:30 a.m., the site will stream a preshow featuring celebrity chef interviews and footage of Brown and the cast preparing for the big day. During the show, viewers can participate on FoodNetwork.com, Facebook.com/FoodNetwork and Livestream.com/FoodNetwork.
The online presentation will include a mix of real-time conversation including video, photos, Facebook and Twitter posts, all integrated into the live video stream, it will allow chefs and viewers to share tips, recipes and commentary.
After the on-air broadcast concludes, the online streaming video will continue.
On Thankgiving Day, cooks can get additional help on a show airing on Public Radio Tulsa KWGS 89.5 FM.
Lynne Rossetto Kasper, award-winning host of public radio’s national food show “The Splendid Table,” will be available to answer listener questions throughout the live, two-hour program.
Past shows have included everything from a cross-country trucker cooking his Thanksgiving dinner on the manifold to a panicked first-time cook who didn’t realize a turkey needs to be thawed.
Guests for the two hour show airing locally on include Rick Bayless, Marcus Samuelsson and Peter Sagal. Phone lines (800-537-5252) will be open nationwide from 10 a.m. to noon and the program will be simulcast live on the Web at splendidtable.org.
