turkey

Thanksgiving is almost here, which means we start seeing turkeys everywhere—on TV, in our children's school drawings, running through our dreams every single night while we sleep ... you get the idea. And eventually these poor turkeys will be inside many of our overstuffed stomachs as well.

Americans will get together this year to share stories, football, and eat a feast of food. Thanksgiving is the biggest waste of food day of any other day in America. We waste $282 million of uneaten turkey every year, and the problem is getting worse.

The perfect turkey is yours to accomplish - it's really not that difficult.  A lot of cooks shy away from roasting turkey because they feel "overwhelmed" by the process.  Let me assure you - it's not difficult, and if you learn from the following tips, you'll have a turkey that everyone raves about...

As a life-long "foodie", I end up being the person a lot of my friends and co-workers come to with their food-related questions.  With the holidays just around the corner, I'm starting to get questions specifically about turkey.

The price of turkey is going to be cheaper than expected this year, largely because many retailers were able to lock in the cost of the birds before the summer’s drought sent feed prices way, way up.

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, does some good work, but it’s the organization’s more absurd stunts that often make headlines — and this one is a prime example. Citing the suffering of turkeys during the Thanksgiving season, PETA sent a letter to the mayor of Turkey, Texas and asked him to change the town’s name to the tofu-based meat alte

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...