Geneva resident Renee Ferguson’s book “Talk Turkey to Me,” will be getting a whopping recognition Nov. 10.

Ferguson will be hosting a cooking special on the Food Network during prime  time television. She, along with a little bit of Geneva, will likely be seen in 88 million homes throughout the United States.

“When the Food Network called me about being on a Thanksgiving special my husband answered the phone,” Ferguson said. “I’m thankful he did because I would have hung up thinking it was a prank call.”

“Talk Turkey to Me” is a tell-all cookbook on turkeys and side dishes. Ferguson will be making a turkey, stuffing and a sauce for her part of a three-segment special on thanksgiving meals. On Sunday, she will be filmed by the Food Network at the Geneva French Market picking out ingredients. The second part of her segment will show her preparing the meal.

After 14 years of answering turkey trauma questions for the Butterball Turkey Hotline, Ferguson began to compile the humorous questions she had heard. One of her favorite questions was, “If I start cooking from frozen, do I need to drill a hole in the turkey to put the meat thermometer it?”

“There were so many funny questions that I started to write them all down,” Ferguson said.

Her degree in home economics, along with being a lifelong cook, gave her the ingredients for a successful cookbook. The book was published last year and has been gaining popularity ever since. “Talk Turkey to Me” is available at the Little Traveler and also online at www.turkeytools.com. According to Ferguson, the Food Network found her on the Internet and then called for a demo tape.

“The beauty of the book is it’s laced with funny introductions and questions everybody has about turkeys,” Ferguson said. “I answer basic questions, like how many pounds of turkey will feed a certain amount of people.”

Ferguson and her husband just moved to Geneva about six weeks ago after buying a historic home — but said her kitchen is not Food Network-worthy. Dan MacFadden, president of the Past Basket, 200 S. Third St., Geneva, recently remodeled the kitchen the store uses for cooking classes and demonstrations. He has offered their kitchen to Ferguson to cook in while being filmed.

“It’s really great for the potential exposure this would give to our store and also to the community,” MacFadden said. “I think it’s great to have such a credible source like the Food Network to be exposed to Geneva.”

Judy Carroll, Travel and Tourism director of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, said the Past Basket kitchen is top of the line. There are all new kitchen features and state-of-art appliances.

“I haven’t yet heard from the Food Network if I will be able to use Past Basket’s kitchen,” Ferguson said. “Hopefully it will work out.”