I think booze is such a great gift over the holidays. It sort of takes the edge off for everybody.

That's our resident sommelier Brad Dunn. He comes into the Earth Eats studios today to talk about how to puzzle through giving a bottle of wine to that hard-to-shop-for buddy on your holiday gift list.

In the kitchen, Chef Daniel Orr is making two awesome cheesy appetizers to pair nicely with that bottle of wine.

A report from Harvest Public Media about how more and more farmers are planting crops that don't directly make them money -- cover crops like oats and winter rye.

Then I chat with the two authors of The American Lighthouse Cookbook. There's so much more than seafood in this book.

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