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Your total Thanksgiving

For our money, the best part of the Thanksgiving dinner isn't the turkey - it's what goes around it.

Carve your turkey like a pro
Interactive holiday cookbook: Recipes, ideas
Try another kind of holiday bird
Your Thanksgiving guide: The Turkey
George Washington is glad to have more pigs around
Dean Mullis | November 17, 2009

We named our Ossabaw boar George Washington, because he came from the Mount Vernon Estate.

Try another kind of holiday bird
Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross | November 17, 2009
Bacon-wrapped Cornish Game Hens with Corn Couscous

Sometimes, Thanksgiving takes a different turn. Perhaps you need to cook for fewer guests, or you don't have enough refrigerator room for a giant bird. Or maybe you simply don't care for turkey.

Chef spills a bit about time on new food show
By Adrienne Johnson Martin | E-mail | November 17, 2009
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Charlotte woman gets shot at culinary fame on Bravo network's "Chef Academy."

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Too soon to rule out whether uptown farmers market needed
Beaujolais wine tasting

Taste the 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau at the Levine Museum of the New South.

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Have a delicious Thanksgiving

I'll be away from my desk here at Food Central for the week of Nov. 23. It's Thanksgiving, and ev...

I'll Bite
Whose 'treat' is birthday dinner?

My two girlfriends and I like to celebrate birthdays by going out for dinner together. Who should pay for the meal?

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Thanksgiving additions

Both Red Rocks locations will be open for Thanksgiving, offering a buffet (by reservation only) 1...

On Dining
Roux the day

A Creole trick can make your Thanksgiving gravy easier. Fat. Flour. That's it. Put them together in the right way and you have roux.

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How to make roux
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Recipe database

For tried and true dishes, browse the collection of Observer-tested recipes from Food Editor Kathleen Purvis and other trusted publications. Or you can search recipes submitted from readers around the region.

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Turkey day wine pairings are pretty easy
A few days out from Thanksgiving, you can feel the tension among hosts and guests. What wine should I serve? What wine should I bring?
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