I can see it now... News flash! Botulism is on the up because of many food poisoning cases due to contaminated Christmas gifts. Lets just hope that anyone else that listened will not attempt this feat.

I fired off a note ! I told them I was a MFP/Food Safety advisor. I sent the link to the National Center for Home Food Preservation on canning pumpkin butter,too.
Let's see if I get a response. Will let you know.

Thanks Linda!

I sent a letter too. The hostess was Sandy Gluck and the name of the show was Everyday Botuli...err...Everyday Food.

Guess what?? I was listening to Sandy's show again this morning (it's the only way I can get any work done by drowing out other cubicle noise) and she corrected her comments/discussion on pumpkin butter from Monday's show!

She said she did this due to the EMAILS SHE RECEIVED linking her to the USDA website. She also thanked us for the information. It turns out she had never even made or canned pumpkin butter, but there she was talking about it. Humpf!

Whoo-hooo! WE DID GOOD!

Looks like another 'armchair expert' has been shot down.

Oh, that is a good thing ! I sent the USDA link, I don't know if you did, too, or not.
Hope no one listened to her first "helpful advice" and didn't hear the rest of the story.
Maybe they should get one of us on the show instead, ha ha !

Congratulation! Your write-a-thon worked! Good for you. God-only knows how many lives you might have saved. Forum Action rules!

Martha and her minions have made several no-nos over the years. ;) Kudos to you for catching and correcting this one!

Dave

linda lou,

I think that's a great idea! "LIVE from ALL OVER THE WORLD, it's ....... the Harvest Forum!"

I call dibs on The Tomato Hour. jt can have Pepper Pontifications. We can call your show "Musings of a Master." ;-)

Zabby