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21 November 2024: Dwindling Thanksgiving Tables

Sage and Onion Cornbread Dressing

 

Over the more than three decades that I've been teaching and writing about cooking, the biggest challenge has been coming up with fresh ways to talk about coping with our big cook's holiday, Thanksgiving. In all that time, the focus, both in my work and most everyone else's, has been on tackling a feast for a crowd without killing ourselves.

 

It never occurred to me—or apparently anyone else—that, as challenging as cooking for that crowd might be, it's nothing to the challenge of The Dwindling Thanksgiving Table. That, I had to learn the hard way.

 

When we moved to Virginia, I happily imagined our dining room table at Thanksgiving, Read More 

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21 November 2012: Mastering Thanksgiving VIII—Damon Lee Talks Turkey (and Dressing)

Roasting a Turkey perfectly is no harder than roasting a chicken--it just takes longer

It’s now time to talk about the Thanksgiving cook’s central job: the turkey and dressing. If you haven’t tried to roast a turkey in a year (or have never done it) the first thing to do is relax: a turkey roasts just like a chicken – it just takes longer. Allow plenty of time and remember that it doesn’t have to look like those magazine covers. Read More 

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