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In this holiday finale, the Green Docs review Christmas movies, more seasonal mocktails, and healthy holiday recipes with Angie Neison – a Family Medicine doctor sharing her unique training in lifestyle and culinary medicine.  She gives you step-by-step recipes for hearty vegetable accouterments, green & red Christmas pasta with grated cheese "snow", and fresh takes on traditional tamales.  She even designed a holiday mocktail just for this show!  You'll want to take notes to create your own "Herb Tea-zzy."

Nate and Bruce cover the latest headlines: Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 (can you guess?), why there's so much excitement over motorcycle taxis called "boda-bodas", and new insights into the environment that created Tiny Tim's famous illness.  You'll learn why the cures from Dickensian London are just as relevant for the challenges ahead in the new year.  Plus, Nate reveals his secret to the perfect Cacio e Pepe!  Tune in for this 2023 finale and keep the holiday magic simmering into 2024.

Show Links

Merriam-Webster's 2023 word of the year is the real deal

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/27/world/merriam-websters-2023-word-scli-intl/index.html#:~:text=Merriam%2DWebster%27s%20word%20of%20the,celebrities%20such%20as%20Taylor%20Swift.

Boda Bodas reducing world oil consumption

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/business/energy-environment/two-three-wheel-electric-vehicles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Environmental Factors in Tiny Tim's Near-Fatal Illness

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/1107722

Why traditional Cacio e Pepe is so hard to perfectly execute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10lXPzbRoU0

Tamales and the Tamalada: A Christmas Tradition

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2022/12/tamales-and-tamaladas/

Culinary Medicine Curriculum

https://lifestylemedicine.org/project/culinary-medicine-curriculum/

How Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Changed the Way the Holiday is Celebrated

https://time.com/5017067/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens-movie/

What is the Feast of the Seven Fishes?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/what-is-the-feast-of-the-seven-fishes

Matthew Perry's 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip' Performance is Peak Perry

https://decider.com/2023/10/30/matthew-perry-studio-60-sunset-strip-performance-peak-perry/

Doc Martin star Martin Clunes uses his medical knowledge to stop surgeons performing a "nonsensical" operation on his wife

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392994/Doc-Martin-star-Martin-Clunes-uses-medical-knowledge-stop-surgeons-performing-nonsensical-operation-wife.html

How is Potter In "It's A Wonderful Life" Able To Go Unpunished For His Theft?

https://the-take.com/watch/how-is-potter-in-its-a-wonderful-life-able-to-go-unpunished-for-his-theft

Green Docs Christmas Movies & Shows 

The Man Who Invented Christmas

The Feast of the Seven Fishes

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: The Christmas Show

Doc Martin: Christmas Special

Mocktails

Angie's Christmas Mocktail: Herb Tea-zzy

• 3 parts brewed tea (hot or cold)
• 1 part pomegranate molasses (substitute: date syrup with pomegranate juice)
• 1 sparkling water
• Garnish: sprig of rosemary

Combine tea and pomegranate molasses in a mixing glass, stir well, and pour into cocktail glass over ice.  Finish with a splash of sparkling water.  Garnish with rosemary on top.