{"id":3597,"date":"2009-11-25T09:09:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T09:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2009-11-25T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T09:09:40","slug":"french_chef_put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3597","title":{"rendered":"French Chef Puts Spin On Thanksgiving Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=120631197\">Steve Inskeep<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Chef Dominique Crenn was raised in Versailles, France. She now makes an incredible Thanksgiving dinner, but when she first came to the U.S., the entire holiday threw her off.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nShe sat down with NPR&#8217;s Steve Inskeep to discuss how she cooks for Thanksgiving.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;I was a little bit lost when I came here,&#8221; she told Inskeep. &#8220;I had no idea what Thanksgiving was about.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nIn France, turkey is eaten at Christmas. So the American phenomenon of Thanksgiving turkey and dressing mystified her.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;Oh, a month before Christmas, we&#8217;re gonna eat Turkey?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nBut now, she&#8217;s hooked. Crenn has been celebrating Thanksgiving for about 20 years. &#8220;This is a pretty cool holiday,&#8221; she said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=120631197\">Steve Inskeep<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Chef Dominique Crenn was raised in Versailles, France. She now makes an incredible Thanksgiving dinner, but when she first came to the U.S., the entire holiday threw her off.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nShe sat down with NPR&#8217;s Steve Inskeep to discuss how she cooks for Thanksgiving.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;I was a little bit lost when I came here,&#8221; she told Inskeep. &#8220;I had no idea what Thanksgiving was about.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nIn France, turkey is eaten at Christmas. So the American phenomenon of Thanksgiving turkey and dressing mystified her.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;Oh, a month before Christmas, we&#8217;re gonna eat Turkey?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nBut now, she&#8217;s hooked. Crenn has been celebrating Thanksgiving for about 20 years. &#8220;This is a pretty cool holiday,&#8221; she said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,13,10,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}