{"id":1238,"date":"2025-12-11T18:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2025-12-11T18:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:42:06","slug":"joanna-gaines-shares-her-spiciest-holiday-food-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Gaines Shares Her Spiciest Holiday Food Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<ul data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"0.0\">Joanna Gaines shared some controversial holiday food hot takes on social media, including that she doesn&#8217;t eat ham.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"0.1\">She also revealed that given the choice, she&#8217;d pick turkey over prime rib.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"0.2\">Gaines also said that if she could pick a Food Network chef to cook her holiday meal, it would be Ree Drummond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">If you ask me, Joanna Gaines has perfected the art of &#8220;having it all.&#8221; She has a thriving business and career, a devoted husband, and five charismatic children to top it all off. As if that weren&#8217;t enough to juggle, the interior designer and cookbook author added another show under her belt with <em data-node-id=\"2.5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/shows\/gingerbread-land-the-biggest-little-holiday-competition\/articles\/gingerbread-land-details-sneak-peek\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/shows\/gingerbread-land-the-biggest-little-holiday-competition\/articles\/gingerbread-land-details-sneak-peek\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Gingerbread Land: The Biggest Little Holiday Competition\" data-node-id=\"2.5.0\" class=\"body-link css-1i7jlb0 emevuu60\">Gingerbread Land: The Biggest Little Holiday Competition<\/a><\/em>, which debuted on the Food Network in November.  <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">On set, the entrepreneur shared some seriously spicy takes in a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSAN4kPDK_d\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSAN4kPDK_d\/?hl=en\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Instagram\" data-node-id=\"3.1\" class=\"body-link css-1i7jlb0 emevuu60\">Instagram<\/a> posts\u2014including calling ham the most overrated holiday food (gasp!). &#8220;Sorry, I don&#8217;t eat ham,&#8221; she confessed in a video snippet. As one of the most popular holiday mains, you can imagine our surprise when Gaines revealed her disdain for the protein.  <\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-13\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-1fm2v8u e94w1mj9\">\n<h6 class=\"css-18s47pf e94w1mj7\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p0\"\/><span class=\"css-8lle59 e94w1mj5\">Related Story<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p1\"\/><\/h6>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">In a similar vein, Joanna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DR7tZ7IEjNb\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DR7tZ7IEjNb\/?hl=en\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"shared\" data-node-id=\"5.1\" class=\"body-link css-1i7jlb0 emevuu60\">shared<\/a> that, given the choice, she&#8217;d choose turkey over prime rib. Considering many people find turkey the dullest part of a Thanksgiving feast, that&#8217;s another surprise take from the Magnolia Network founder. And you might assume that, as the host of a show all about gingerbread houses, she&#8217;d have a soft spot for the classic holiday cookie. Instead, Gaines admitted she actually prefers sugar cookies to gingerbread\u2014blasphemous! <\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-14\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">One take we can definitely get on board with: her dream partner-in-crime in the kitchen. Asked which Food Network chef she&#8217;d want cooking her holiday dinner, she answered with: &#8220;Ree Drummond. I think we would have so much fun.&#8221; How&#8217;s that for a not-so-hot-take?  <\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-15\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-fcvumo e94w1mj1\"\/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Gaines shared some controversial holiday food hot takes on social media, including that she doesn&#8217;t eat ham. She also revealed that given the choice, she&#8217;d pick turkey over prime rib. Gaines also said that if she could pick a Food Network chef to cook her holiday meal, it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}