This week on “Sunday Morning” (Nov. 23): The Meals Problem

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RECIPES: “Sunday Morning” 2025 “Meals Problem” recipe index
Scrumptious menu solutions from high cooks, cookbook authors, meals writers, restaurateurs, and the editors of New York Instances Cooking!

COVER STORY: Why we love consolation meals
Dr. Uma Naidoo, a dietary psychiatrist, says the sugar discovered in lots of consolation meals hits our brains in the identical pleasure heart as road medication do. However that is not the one motive we discover consolation in such treasured dishes. Susan Spencer talks with Suzanne Tomlinson, proprietor of Vermont-based Poorhouse Pies, the place most something is baked in a pie; and with registered dietician Stefani Sassos, head of the Good Housekeeping Institute Vitamin & Health Lab, who presents “plant-based choices” for conventional favorites that aren’t excessive in fats and sugar, however nonetheless supply the identical warm-and-fuzzy nostalgia.

RECIPE: Air Fryer Turkey Breast with Gravy (from Good Housekeeping Take a look at Kitchen)

RECIPE: Hen Pot Pie, from Poorhouse Pies

RECIPE: Dr. Uma’s Cherry Calm Smoothie

RECIPE: Dr. Uma’s Wholesome-ish Mac & Cheese

RECIPE: Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes & Cauliflower (from Good Housekeeping Take a look at Kitchen)

For more information:

• Poorhouse Pies, Underhill, Vt.
• Dr. Uma Naidoo
• “Calm Your Thoughts With Meals: A Revolutionary Information to Controlling Your Anxiousness” by Uma Naidoo, MD (Little, Brown Spark), in Hardcover, Commerce Paperback, eBook and Audio codecs, obtainable through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• The Good Housekeeping Institute Vitamin & Health Lab
• Because of Bar Florine, New York Metropolis

       
SCIENCE: Powering our urge for food for protein
Proteins, whether or not from whey, crops or animals, are important for constructing muscle. Final yr, roughly 71% of customers recognized protein because the nutrient they most often attempt to eat. That is an urge for food company America is more than pleased to feed – though protein typically would not style excellent. Lee Cowan seems to be at how corporations like Common Mills are growing protein-fueled merchandise, and the way Individuals could also be consuming extra protein than they want.

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FEEDING THE SOUL #1: Making a lifeline for households in onerous occasions
Murphy’s Giving Market, a meals pantry in Higher Darby, Pa., was began not by a nonprofit or authorities company, however by one involved citizen: Desireé Murphy Morrisey, who’d gone via robust occasions herself. Her pantry, based throughout COVID, now helps 400 households. She talks with David Pogue about why she feels it’s her social duty to assist these experiencing robust occasions now.

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WORLD: Welcome to the world’s oldest restaurant
Based in 1725, Restaurante Botín, in Madrid, Spain, is acknowledged by Guinness World Data because the oldest restaurant on the earth. However throughout city, the homeowners of Casa Pedro consider theirs could also be even older; it has been of their household for at the very least 10 generations. Seth Doane visits two timeless institutions that every have a good time household, pleasure, custom, and a few excellent meals.

RECIPE: Chickpeas With Boletus Mushrooms, from Madrid’s Casa Pedro

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NEWS: Further! Further! In Maine, a restaurant helps subsidize a neighborhood newspaper
In Camden, Maine, on the Villager Cafe, clients can have their breakfast or lunch with a aspect of reports, a weekly newspaper referred to as The Midcoast Villager, which the cafe helps assist. Each are owned by longtime Maine media mogul Reade Brower, who talks with Martha Teichner about dishing up sustainable journalism.

RECIPE: Maine Blueberry Pancakes with Blueberry Compote, from the Villager Cafe

RECIPE: Haddock Hash, from the Villager Cafe

RECIPE: Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, from The Villager Cafe

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POLITICS: What presidents ate – Steak for breakfast, and squirrel soup
Bennett Rea’s social media collection “Cookin’ With Congress” demonstrates the arcane diets of our nation’s presidents, first women, and different political figures. He discusses with Mo Rocca a number of the uncommon dishes loved by our former chief executives, from Richard Nixon’s ham mousse, to James Garfield’s favourite: squirrel soup.

RECIPE: President James Garfield’s favourite apple pie

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CONDIMENTS: Sauerkraut, the tangy condiment that is a crowd-pleaser
Its origins stem from China, Korea and Germany, and at the moment it is by no means removed from a scorching canine (or, when you’re attending the annual Sauerkraut Competition in Waynesville, Ohio, a pizza or donut). Jonathan Vigliotti talks with Sandor Ellix Katz about how fermentation produces sauerkraut, and checks out the method at Actual Pickles, a Massachusetts co-op that additionally produces chile, turmeric and kimchi varieties.

RECIPE: Heat Winter Salad, from Actual Pickles

RECIPE: Falafel-Impressed Cauliflower Pita Sandwiches, from Actual Pickles

RECIPE: Grilled Cheese with Cheddar, Apple, & Sauerkraut, from Actual Pickles

For more information:

• Ohio Sauerkraut Competition, Waynesville, Ohio
• Sandor Katz’s Wild Fermentation
• “The Artwork of Fermentation: With Sensible Data on Fermenting Greens, Fruits, Grains, Milk, Beans, Meats, and Extra” by Sandor Ellix Katz (Chelsea Inexperienced), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio Codecs, obtainable through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Actual Pickles, Greenfield, Mass.

      
WORLD: Korean fried hen, the opposite KFC
The rising recognition of Korean fried hen displays a better familiarity with Korean tradition. However its origins will be traced to an American cookbook courting again to when African American troopers fought within the Korean Conflict. Nancy Giles talks with chef Judy Joo, co-creator of Seoul Fowl, and Suzie Tsai, CEO of the chain Bonchon, about meals that has come full-circle. 

RECIPE: Korean Fried Hen Bites by Judy Joo

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FEEDING THE SOUL #2: A restaurant the place you pay what you’ll be able to
With a view to make good meals extra accessible, meals justice author and advocate Mark Bittman and chef Mavis-Jay Sanders have launched a pilot program in New York Metropolis referred to as Group Kitchen, which for a restricted time is providing effective eating on a sliding scale. Prospects pay what they will – $15, $45, or $125. It is a mannequin they hope to open in a everlasting model in Manhattan and past. David Pogue stories.

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STAGE: Broadway child – Lea Michele again the place all of it started
Lea Michele made her Broadway debut in “Les Miserables” on the age of eight. The “Glee” star who lately returned to Broadway within the revival of “Humorous Lady” is now starring in “Chess: The Musical.” She talks with Tracy Smith about getting into the footwear of her idol Barbra Streisand, and in regards to the challenges she confronted giving beginning to her second little one.

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ARTS: The great thing about charcuterie
Culinary content material creators have turned charcuterie into a visible artwork kind. For Marissa Mullen, founding father of “That Cheese Plate,” designing a resplendent cheese board or array of sliced meats is a ardour mission. Religion Salie talks with Mullen about constructing a board that’s greater than mere celebration meals; and with chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud in regards to the historical past of conventional French charcuterie.

RECIPE: Marissa Mullen’s Winter Vacation Antipasto Platter

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FEEDING THE SOUL #3: Instructing the meals truck enterprise
A retired Air Power brigadier common sought a brand new mission: to create the primary licensed cell food-truck apprentice program in America. David Pogue talks with John Michel about Foreign money of Caring, which helps educate entrepreneurs (lots of whom had been going via onerous occasions) the food-truck enterprise; and with Demetrius Gower, whose Massive Meechie’s Kitchen & Meals Truck, in Granite Metropolis, Ailing., has confirmed an award-winning success.

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IN MEMORIAM: Beloved recipes etched in stone
When archivist Rosie Grant launched a TikTok channel, GhostlyArchive, as a testomony to gravestones, she found a distinct segment type of memorial: cemetery markers that bear beloved recipes of the dearly departed. She talks with Conor Knighton about her cookbook assortment of gravestone recipes which might be “To Die For.”

RECIPE: Spaghetti Hen Casserole, from “To Die For”

RECIPE: Spritz Cookies, from “To Die For”

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NATURE: Turkeys
     

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WEB EXCLUSIVES:

MARATHON: Cynthia Erivo, John Chu and extra from the “Depraved” film and musical (YouTube Video)
Observe “CBS Sunday Morning” down the yellow brick street to Oz with these tales in regards to the “Depraved” film and Broadway present.

• The making of the musical hit
• Director Jon M. Chu on the street to Oz
• How Cynthia Erivo defies gravity
• Composer Stephen Schwartz prolonged interview
• Cynthia Erivo prolonged interview

MARATHON: Straightforward as pie! (YouTube Video)
Dig in as “Sunday Morning” slices up some scrumptious tales about everybody’s favourite dessert. That includes: 

• Conor Knighton attends the Nationwide Pie Championships in Orlando, Florida 
• A go to to the Omni Parker Home Resort, birthplace of Boston cream pie 
• Invoice Geist heads to Pie City, N.M., a city that is all about … pies! 
• All-American pies: 50 pies for 50 states 
• The place did key lime pie come from? 
• Lauren Ko’s gorgeous pie artwork 
• Steve Hartman on two mates’ monumental pie battle 
• Hrishikesh Hirway’s household custom of mango pie 
• The Royers Café, in Spherical Prime, Texas, presents pie lovers an irresistible deal: pie for all times!  

MARATHON: Consolation meals (YouTube Video)
“Sunday Morning” serves up simply what we want: a large serving to of tales about consolation meals:

• The enchantment of mac & cheese
• Chef and meals author Samin Nosrat discusses consolation meals in discomfiting occasions
• The magic of pancakes
• New twists on the custom of Campbell’s Soup
• A restaurant dedicated to meatballs
• Wynton Marsalis makes a pit cease in Lockhart, Texas, a Mecca for BBQ lovers
• The common-or-garden tater tot … simply add caviar
• Tortellini, a conventional Italian consolation meals
• A Southern establishment: The Waffle Home
• Bobby Flay on the necessity for consolation meals
• Spam, that oft-maligned canned meat, is treasured in Hawaii
• Noah Verrier’s work of consolation meals

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Successful hearts & minds over vaccines (Video)
The World Well being Group listed vaccine hesitancy — when mother and father delay or withhold vaccines for his or her kids — as one of many Prime 10 well being dangers for 2019. Dr. Jon LaPook stories on well being specialists utilizing science as an antidote to misinformation about vaccines. (Initially aired Could 12, 2019.)

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