In this episode Dave and Nastassia welcome their friend Phil Bravo, who sings us into the holiday season. They also talk about the Black Friday Booker and Dax Sale, how to extend Brownie shelf lives, and Dave disparages parsnips.

This week on WORD OF MOUTH, Leiti meets up with John Polarkoff from The Pines restaurant in Gowanus, Brooklyn, to talk parsnips. After the break, we're joined in the studio by Daniel Burns, chef and owner of Luksus at Torst in Greenpoint, and one of Platt's Top 5 Best New Chefs of 2014!

How was the first Thanksgiving actually celebrated? This week on We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are getting historical with Lorie Danek and Kelly Araujo of the Plimoth Plantation garden!

Welcome to WORD OF MOUTH with Leiti Hsu on HeritageRadioNetwork.org! Leiti, a fixture in NYC dining culture, is joined by #peoplewelike Chef Leah Cohen, owner of Pig & Khao restaurant and former Top Chef finalist.

What is the essence of Southern food? This week on Taste Matters, host Mitchell Davis is joined by a wealth of Southern food guests from the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival. Todd L.

On this week's episode of The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks is joined in the studio by cookbook author Diane Morgan.

Nancy Grove is frequently asked why her farm is named Old Path Farm.

Today on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks talks to Erin Grimley and Steve Blabac of the Root Down Farm. The Root Down Farm is located in western New York, serving the greater Buffalo area as a mixed-vegetable C.S.A. farm. Now in its second Year, the Root Down Farm has doubled its C.S.A.

This week the Naturalist's Bernie Wides pays a special tribute to his late friend and avid gardener Sim Ross. With the help of Janet David they read from his 2005 essay, "My Garden and Me".

This week on Cooking Issues Dave and Nastassia return to US soil to tackle more listener queries from the phone and the computer. Learn some surprising secrets to getting velvety, home-ground meat without bone chips.