Bringing The World Home To You

© 2024 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862

Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

Turkey Hotline

By Diane Roberts

Published November 24, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Essayist and "part-time" hotline operator Diane Roberts has tips on how to cure those turkey woes.

Diane Roberts

Diane Roberts is a commentator on Weekend Edition Sunday. An eighth-generation Floridian, she is Professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she pulls weeds in the spring and attends FSU football games in the fall. She went to Oxford University courtesy of a Marshall Scholarship in 1980 and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and a doctorate in American literature.

Stories From This Author

Krispy Kreme Tales: A Taste of Home in London

Diane Roberts

Weekend Edition essayist Diane Roberts visited England recently, where she found some of her favorite doughnuts in the unlikeliest of places: Britain's famously hoity-toity department store, Harrods. The Southern native took one bite of the sublime confection -- OK, several bites -- and felt right at home...
Post-Election 'Depression' in Tallahassee

Diane Roberts

Unlike the rest of the country, the denizens of Tallahassee, Florida are not happy that the elections of 2004 have come to an end. An essay by Diane Roberts.
Women and Politics

Diane Roberts

"Eighty-two years after women got the right to vote," observes essayist Diane Roberts, "it's not remarkable to see women asking for votes." But, she says, we often respond as though it is unusual, and that limits our perspective on women as political candidates.