S1, Ep 4: How Do You Mean?

TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR AMERICAN RITUAL

If you want to share your responses from the ritual for possible inclusion in the podcast, email the audio recording to:

thethirdspacecollective@gmail.com

Subject line: “YOUR FIRST NAME – AMERICAN RITUAL”

by Saturday, November 28 at 12p PT.

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In Episode 4, our hosts re-imagine their relationships to Thanksgiving as a ritual and offer suggestions for how they're bringing new meaning to the holiday.

SOURCES

“At Christmas You Tell The Truth”, Love, Actually, dir: Richard Curtis, 2003. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyN9E08vFSY&vl=en-US>

Holiday Turkey Leftovers: Congee, Chef Jon Kung. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ESpDiiZ9g>

“A Turkey Named Brotherhood”, Addams Family Values, dir: Barry Sonnenfeld, 1993. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQqQuOO9yQ>

Trigger warning: please know that even in the context of satire and calling out the ignorance of white people, there is an overabundance of cultural appropriation and backwards stereotypes of Indigenous culture in this Addams Family Values clip. 

Andrew Eversden and Edgar Walters, “Texas Democrat Colin Allred defeats GOP incumbent Pete Sessions in key U.S. House race,” November 6, 2018, Texas Tribune <https://www.texastribune.org/2018/11/06/democrat-colin-allred-leads-gop-congressman-pete-sessions-texas/>

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RECIPES

Kristina’s parents’ turkey porridge recipe

Ingredients:

1 Whole turkey carcass, bones broken down into manageable sizes to fit into your slow cooker

½ to 1 cup aromatics and vegetables that were roasted with your turkey

½ cup turkey meat and skin

1 cup rice

¼ cup turkey drippings

Water

Directions:

1. Fill a slow cooker with turkey carcass, aromatics, vegetables, turkey meat and skin, rice, and turkey drippings.

2. Add water to just below the lip were the lid rests. (Please note that this is for a standard sized, round slow cooker. If your slow cooker is oblong, you might need to add a touch more rice if the amount of water seems like it would make for a very runny porridge. And apologies for the vagaries -- when I asked my parents what size their 1970s slow cooker is, they just said “standard size”, so…)

3. Cover and set to high. Let this go, untouched, for at least 7-8 hours. Resist the urge to remove the lid before then. 

4. To plate, make sure you get the browned rice from the sides and bottom of the slow cooker, along with the porridge, turkey, and vegetables. 

5. Top with anything and everything that strikes your fancy! Including but not limited to:

   1. Scallion and/or other tender fresh herbs

   2. Sesame oil

   3. Chili oil

   4. Chili crisp

   5. Hot sauce

   6. French fried onions

   7. Grated cheese

   8. XO sauce 

   9. Sesame seeds

   10. Pork floss 

   11. Crumbled chicharrón

   12. Toasted up bits of stuffing

   13. More turkey

   14. More turkey drippings

   15. Crispy fried egg

   16. Pesto

   17. Lemon zest

   18. Fried up sausage (Chinese, chorizo, ‘nduja, Italian, breakfast…)