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Speaker 1: Hi everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kelsey Nixon and this is Kitchen Prescription, the podcast

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Speaker 2: you listen to when you don't know what to make

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Speaker 2: more dinner. This is episode fifty nine, How to Host Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 2: the encore episode. All Right, this just may have been

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Speaker 2: one of the craziest professional weeks I've had it in

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Speaker 2: a long time. Well, first of all, we're two weeks

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Speaker 2: off of launching our recipe binder that sold out in

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Speaker 2: six minutes. I still can't believe it. I literally still

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Speaker 2: cannot believe it. We immediately started working on getting more

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Speaker 2: binders from our manufacturer and cannot wait to get them

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Speaker 2: in your kitchens. We are working so hard behind the

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Speaker 2: scenes to try and make that happen. But last week

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Speaker 2: I also traveled to Utah, That's where I'm from, and

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Speaker 2: I was there to help my mom organize her new,

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Speaker 2: beautiful kitchen. So she has lived in the house she's

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Speaker 2: in now for the past twenty five year or so.

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Speaker 1: And this is a.

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Speaker 2: Woman who loves to cook. She's the person who I

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Speaker 2: got my own passion for cooking from. And she renovated

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Speaker 2: her kitchen after twenty five years and it is stunning.

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Speaker 2: Not only is it stunning, it's just so smart. I

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Speaker 2: shared a little bit of it on Instagram last week.

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Speaker 2: But you guys, like a couple of things. She has

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Speaker 2: these nice deep drawers throughout her kitchen, but they're double drawers. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So she has the nice deep drawers to put the

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Speaker 2: on her cabinets was brilliant. There is in cabinet lighting

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Speaker 2: for crying out lot. I'm surprised that birds don't sing

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Speaker 2: when you open those cabinets because everything was just so

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Speaker 2: thoughtfully done. It really, I just was my jaw was

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Speaker 2: on the ground. And I've seen a lot of kitchens.

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Speaker 2: She just did a great job. She turned she had

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Speaker 2: of her island. And so it's this nice, big surface

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Speaker 2: of put the finishing touches on organizing. Now you might

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Speaker 2: be like, it's a brand new kitchen, isn't it organized?

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Speaker 2: But when you live somewhere for twenty five years, you

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Speaker 2: we did was actually get rid of things. We donated

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Speaker 2: some things. I took some things for myself, but she

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Speaker 2: And so once we got we literally went through every drawer,

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Speaker 2: the junk drawer, and then once everything was dialed, we

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Speaker 2: labeled it all because labeling leads to longevity, especially in

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Speaker 1: But it just reminded me.

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Speaker 2: Of this concept of meson plas. It's the first thing

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Speaker 2: convinced that it applies in our physical kitchens as well,

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Speaker 2: where when everything is in its place in your kitchen,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not saying that your kitchen's always got to

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Speaker 2: Much easier to cook. It is so much easier, It

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Speaker 2: worth investing in. And I know we're butting up against

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Speaker 2: the holidays right now, and it might be too close

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Speaker 2: I had a blast in my mom's kitchen and left

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Speaker 2: so happy for her, which is a touch of envy

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Speaker 2: I'm still recovering, but I am also looking ahead and

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Speaker 2: mapping out meals for this next week. So here are

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Speaker 2: All right, there are your recipes for the week. You

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Speaker 2: follow shopping lists broken down by recipes. Remember that in

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Speaker 2: Recipe Club this month. Try it out. You'll get the

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Speaker 2: guide along with the recipes, and you can print the guide,

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Speaker 2: you can print the recipes. It should make November feel

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Speaker 2: a bit more manageable for you. Next week, we're going

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Speaker 2: to talk about if you answer those first four questions

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Speaker 2: differently and you're actually a guest at Thanksgiving dinner this year,

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Speaker 2: how you can be the world's greatest guest, Some basic etiquette,

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Speaker 2: some simple ideas for our host gifts, things like that,

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to get into it all right, Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for being here, you guys, and until next time,

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Speaker 2: I'm Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next week.