Unless you prefer your turkey burnt to a crisp on the outside and frozen solid on the inside, you might want to think about thawing your bird sooner rather than later. Every year, the experts on the receiving end of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line help to guide America’s home cooks toward a successful Thanksgiving feast. However, as one can […]
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Your Thanksgiving table may be smaller this year, but if it’s still full of squashes, corn pudding, turkey and cranberry sauce, thank Native Americans — those foods are indigenous. But that apple pie is international — apples are from Kazakhstan and the pie part is from England. It’s hard to define what “American food” is […]
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Apparently, America runs on Dunkin-stuffed turkey this year. Answering the rhetorical question — “What will they think of next?” — is the newest trending holiday feast: the TurDunkin’, a recipe involving turkey, doughnut holes and sprinkles from the innovative minds of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The almost too-Boston recipe – that […]
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Almost 5 million Americans have already traveled by plane ahead of Thanksgiving — a pandemic-era high, according to the latest data. Airport security screened 4.8 million people from Friday to Tuesday, the TSA said. That’s still 59 percent less than the same period in 2019, when nearly 12 million people passed through American airports. But […]
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President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday called on Americans not to gather with extended families for Thanksgiving, saying it was a “patriotic duty” to limit the spread of COVID-19. Biden said during an at times campaign-like speech in Wilmington, Del., that he and his family were setting an example by not celebrating the holiday as a […]
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Groups gathered around America’s Thanksgiving tables will likely be much smaller this year, in an effort to reduce the risk of contracting or spreading COVID-19. But while traditions are tweaked for safety’s sake, the dinner itself doesn’t have to be any different — or taste any less delicious. For ambitious home chefs hoping to deep-fry a turkey, the National Fire […]
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