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TV Poll: What's on the Menu?

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The Tuned In house is hosting Thanksgiving this year, for 18 people, so like many of you I’m combining work this week with back-of-my-mind menu planning and logistical calculations. And yet as much as people like to commiserate about the burden of Thanksgiving, I love it. I love cooking, but more to the point I love eating, and therefore I love the idea of a holiday that is not about gifts or costumes or any distraction other than food. (I mean, yes, thankfulness, religious freedom, blah blah blah. But basically food.) 

The folks at Food Network must love this time of year also—indeed, the entire American gustatory season that runs from here roughly through Super Bowl Sunday—and the TV currently turned on while I work is currently a nonstop parade of butter, celery and cranberries. If I weren’t a TV critic and required to watch TV more broadly, I’d watch far more cooking shows than I do now. And yet more and more often I get my food-TV fix outside Food Network—be it from PBS or Travel Channel or Bravo—so I thought I’d throw the question to the audience: what are your favorite cooking shows? Any new discoveries I should know about? And what’s for dinner Thursday?