Buckle up for a Mainstreet episode that’s all planes, trains, and automobiles, as the Prairie Public team swaps stories of their own bad holiday travel adventures. Then we shift from travel troubles to comfort food on Prairie Plates, where Rick Gion takes us inside Pheasant Cafe in Mott, North Dakota.In this week’s Prairie Beat, the holidays are here and so are the simmering pots, stacked plates, and stories. We’re serving up the must-know food safety tips to keep your family’s Thanksgiving both delicious and worry-free.

One of North Dakota’s most striking beauties has to be frost, the glistening white that covers tree branches, power lines, street signs, even blades of grass. It would take a lifetime to paint even one acre of trees all white, but Jack Frost does it overnight.