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Thanksgiving Central
Recipes and tips for enjoying the holiday while also remaining safe this year

Originally this was going to be a gentle story about reclaiming and modernizing clunky holiday foods, using the specific example of that most loved or loathed Thanksgiving classic, the green bean casserole....
Every year, curious friends and family ask me how I navigate Thanksgiving as a person who doesn't eat turkey. (I'm a pescatarian, for the record, not a strict vegetarian, but fowl are definitely a do-not-eat...
This story first appeared on Food52, an online community that gives you everything you need for a happier kitchen and home – that means tested recipes, a shop full of beautiful products, a cooking hotline,...
It's hard to say which of my then-boyfriend’s highly emotional reactions struck me first and hardest, based on my memory of a moment that happened a long time ago. Was it the profound bemusement clouding...
Whether you bake chocolate bourbon pecan or sweet potato pie, you can't go wrong. But the secret's all in the crust
Last fall, Nashville House, a storied family-style restaurant and country store in Nashville, Ind., announced that it would be closing after 91 years in business. “In a few days, you’ll no longer be able...
Reprinted with permission from The Good Book of Southern Baking by Kelly Fields with Kate Heddings, copyright (c) 2020. Published by Lorena Jones Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. I have...
This story first appeared on Food52, an online community that gives you everything you need for a happier kitchen and home – that means tested recipes, a shop full of beautiful products, a cooking hotline,...
Early in the pandemic, when everyone, including me, had flocked to their kitchens in an attempt to perfect their "project breads" — crusty sourdough, six-strand challah, dense rye — I found a lot of solace...
When it comes to preparing for the holidays, the one thing entertainers all need a little less of is stress. So what if we told you that the secret to a stress-free Thanksgiving in the kitchen has finally...
It took Fields two and a half years to get her chocolate chip cookie recipe "just right." Here's how she did it
So you survived Thanksgiving, navigating the conversations and getting that second helping of pie. And you know what comes after Thanksgiving, right? No, not the horrors of Black Friday but something better:...
We put hours of planning into our Thanksgiving dinners, and one of the perks of cooking enough to feed an entire Olympic swim team is not having to cook real meals for the duration of the long weekend....
There is not a form of pre-made dough I do not consider a culinary godsend. My freezer is tiny, but you will never find it missing a single member of my holy trinity — phyllo, pie crust and puff pastry....
Can you name the Native American tribe with whom the Pilgrims shared America’s first Thanksgiving? Can you name the country from which the Pilgrims came? It is more likely than not that most readers here...
This article was originally published on The Conversation. As Americans prepare for the first Thanksgiving in the time of the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a stark...