thanksgiving

If you're like most Americans, your Thanksgiving dinner table will include at least a few basic items — turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and the like. But have you ever thought about why we eat those foods on Thanksgiving? Or, for that matter, why turkey is called “turkey”? In order to answer these ha ...

This Thanksgiving PSA from William Shatner rests somewhere between his musical stylings and that time he threw a chair on ‘$20,000 Pyramid’ on the weirdness scale. In the video below that Shatner made for State Farm Insurance, the onetime Capt. Kirk talks about the dangers of deep-frying a turkey.

The folks around here like to call me a "food snob" - because I like to cook.  As the resident "foodie", I've been asked to provide guidelines on roasting the perfect turkey. The first step involved selecting a turkey.  I prefer frozen turkeys over fresh turkeys  - and here's why:  Frozen turkeys are processed and flash-frozen immediately after processing;  Unless you know the

If the Thanksgiving meal conjures up images of Norman Rockwell and families gathered around the dining room table in their homes, you might need to think again.  More and more people are eating their turkey dinner at restaurants. Who eats Thanksgiving at restaurants...

If you’re planning to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, be prepared to have trouble finding open seats, pay a premium when you do and fly on a packed plane. Industry insiders say that, because of high costs and lower bookings, airlines have had to increase ticket prices and reduce the number of available seats.