Paul Kelly grew up on a turkey farm and continues his family legacy of raising top of the line poultry. He's also the World's Fastest Turkey Carver! Kelly joined LiveNOW from FOX with tips on how to select and prepare the best turkey for your family's Thanksgiving feast. Sandra Lee is busy these days. With a holiday slate that includes three new specials on QVC and two new shows, not to mention her recent selection to the White House Historical Association's national council, it's a wonder she still has time to cook. Fox News Digital spoke with Lee during a break in her schedule to hear about her favorite fall foods , what she's cooking this Thanksgiving and where she's spending the holidays. The 58-year-old California native is back in her home state, where she's been recording episodes of "Blue Ribbon Baking Championship," a new Netflix show. A former blue-ribbon winner herself at the LA County Fair, Lee said she crafted the concept for the series and pitched it to the Food Network (it turned her down). But she didn't give up on the idea and took it to Netflix — which debuted the eight-episode series earlier this year. Lee also launched "Dinner Budget Showdown," which she co-hosts, on the Roku Channel. The reality show challenges contestants to come up with innovative budget-friendly cooking techniques that test their culinary skills. Also, Lee's "Aunt Sandy Claus" collection will be featured during three one-hour shows she's hosting on QVC in November. After that, she'll be spending Thanksgiving in New York with her best friend Alexandra Stanton. And what will she be making? A person carves a Thanksgiving turkey "I'm doing whatever Alex tells me to do," Lee said to Fox News Digital. Whatever it is, it'll likely include one of Lee's favorite side dishes. "You have to have a great mashed potato , right?" she said. Lee uses sour cream instead of milk or buttermilk to make her mashed potatoes, "which makes it thicker," she said. "I like it a little bit lumpy." But the mashed potatoes aren't complete without the gravy, Lee pointed out. "I love gravy," she said, saying her family refers to her as the "gravy queen." "Not the gravy train," she added with a laugh. "The gravy queen. I guess I'm both in my family." Lee revealed how she makes her gravy . "I like to do a flour and an oil roux, and I make it nice and dark," she said. "And I use the giblets from the turkey. Boil it in water. Simmer it for a long, long, long, long time – like a day – and then let it kind of sit, so you get a really beautiful flavor in your stock that you make." Lee said she also uses the drippings from the turkey. She prepares a cornbread stuffing with celery, green onions, Campbell's chicken with rice soup, butter and poultry seasoning. GET UPDATES ON THIS STORY AT FOXNEWS.COM
An unreleased $6.2-million transportation study obtained by the Star reveals more Torontonians cycle than Premier Doug Ford has claimed in his crusade to restrict . The Transportation Tomorrow Survey found 3.1 per cent of Toronto residents commute to work by bicycle each morning, triple the “one per cent” Ford often cites. That number jumps to 3.6 per cent of those who reported using their bikes “all day” in a city of where 164,806 daily cycling trips were made. While that’s have argued in opposing Ford’s removal of bike lanes on Yonge Street, and University Avenue, bicycle use has been steadily climbing since the 2006 survey. Testifying , Jacquelyn Hayward, director of transportation planning, design and management at the City of Toronto, said the study should be made public to better inform the debate around bike lanes. The decision to install temporary bike lanes during COVID — most became permanent — seemed to Asked at committee by Liberal MPP Mary-Margaret McMahon (Beaches-East York) if it would “be helpful if the government released the Transportation Tomorrow Survey,” the high-ranking municipal bureaucrat nodded. “Yes. We have access to it as a partner in it and we believe that it should be available for public consumption and planning,” said Hayward, who spoke out against the province’s legislation and questioned the use of “very old data” by the government. “The Transportation Tomorrow Survey 2022 is available and it demonstrates numbers that are very different from that,” she said, adding in some parts of the city “closer to 10” per cent cycle. “In wards that are served by the bike lanes in question, the numbers are staggering and higher.” As first reported by the Star, city officials used the data in the provincial study in a to council earlier this month. Under the new law, which Monday, municipalities must seek provincial approval for any that remove vehicular lanes. Intended to reduce traffic gridlock, critics have warned it will make cycling less safe because existing Toronto infrastructure will also be removed. The Progressive Conservatives have used their parliamentary majority to ram through a The — co-ordinated by the Ministry of Transportation in partnership with 24 municipalities and transit agencies, including the City of Toronto, the TTC and Metrolinx — is normally conducted every five years and involves thousands of interviews. Done in fall 2022 and spring 2023, it was supposed to be made public last month, but has remained under wraps as Ford’s Progressive Conservatives pushed through controversial measures designed to ease congestion. “No decision is sought for the release given it is regular ministry business to release the results once the survey is complete,” says the 38-page “preliminary findings draft” PowerPoint deck obtained by the Star. “The deck is to provide awareness of the findings in advance of the release planned for December 13, 2024,” says the internal document dated Nov. 22. It found “an increase in walking and cycling trips was observed, especially in Toronto” since the last survey that was done in 2016. (The scheduled 2021 survey was delayed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic.) Asked about mode of transportation in the “AM Peak,” 3.1 per cent of people in Toronto aged 11 and up commuted by bicycle while 13 per cent walked. Some 46 per cent of Torontonians drove their own cars or trucks in the morning with another 11 per cent being passengers in private vehicles and 25 per cent took public transit. The numbers change slightly when surveyed about “all day” modes of transportation: 3.6 per cent rode bikes, 50 per cent drove, 12 per cent were passengers, 22 per cent took transit, and 10 per cent walked. For the rest of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, 66 per cent drove their own vehicles in the morning with another 13 per cent passengers, eight per cent walked, six per cent took transit and one per cent cycled. Asked about “all day” transportation use, 70 per cent drove, 16 per cent were passengers, five per cent walked, five per cent took transit and 0.9 per cent used bicycles. In the rest of the Greater Golden Horseshoe — including Guelph, Niagara Region, Barrie and Peterborough — 72 per cent drove their own vehicles in the morning with another 10 per cent being passengers, seven per cent walked, two per cent took transit and 1.4 per cent cycled. For “all day” trips in the exurban area, 75 per cent drove, 14 per cent were passengers, four per cent walked, two per cent took transit and 1.3 per cent rode bikes. Toronto had by far the most daily cycling trips of any municipality in the survey with 164,806, followed by Waterloo with 20,995, 18,822 in Hamilton, 17,047 in Peel, 14,568 in York, and 11,959 in Halton. That compares to 52,171 daily users in Toronto of paid ride share services like Uber. In Peel, there were 14,426 daily ride share users with York at 6,066, Halton at 4,221, and Durham at 3,595. Under the heading “Key Take Aways for 2022 TTS,” the PowerPoint deck concludes “the automobile remains the dominant mode of transportation.” That on main arteries in a bid to tackle gridlock that the Toronto Region Board of Trade has estimated costs the economy $11 billion annually. “One per cent of the population cannot take up 50 per cent of the roads,” the premier said Monday in Burlington. But the survey found cycling is continuing to grow in popularity — one per cent of Torontonians did their morning commute by bike in 2006, 1.6 per cent in 2011, 2.5 per cent in 2016 and 3.1 per cent in 2022. Similarly, 1.1 per cent of Torontonians reported “all day” riding trips in the 2006 study, 1.9 per cent in 2011, 2.7 per cent in 2016 and 3.6 per cent in 2022. The City of Toronto estimates it will take $48 million to dismantle 22 kilometres of bike lanes that cost $27 million to install, a tally Ford has dismissed as inflated “hogwash.” against any lawsuits if someone is killed or injured where a bike lane has been removed.Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump
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