Hey there, it's Colby.
So as we begin to prep our turkeys and get ready to make our stuffing and mashed potatoes ahead of Thanksgiving Day,
we wanted to re-air a delightful and award-winning episode from last year.
It's a culinary mystery that senior producer Ted Muldoon and our old colleague Shane Harris went on a quest to solve.
It's a story about a sweet meaty treat that had been at the center of American power for decades.
It's about politics, loyalty, and finally giving credit where credit is due.
Okay, we hope you enjoy the show.
Shane's going to take it from here.
Okay, so setup is it's October 2014.
And Ben Bradley, the legendary editor of the post, has just died.
And I'm reading an article in the paper,
not about his funeral, but about the after party to his funeral.
So like Ben had an after party and it was like an A-list party.
And where are you in your life?
Where are you working?
I am working as the senior writer for Washingtonian magazine.
So I had worked, I've been working as a journalist in DC at that point for about 14 years.
writing on national security, policy, and politics.
And I'm reading a story about the party by Roxanne Roberts,
who used to write the post's reliable source column.