Don’t let this happen to you We were supposed to drive halfway across the country and spend Thanksgiving with friends this year. Those plans fell through, so I found myself assembling some side dishes this morning and thinking there must be readers across the country who woke up today in a panic, still not knowing exactly [...]
Tags: Thanksgiving
Wait! This is no time for the cook to rest on his laurels. Sure, you worked all day putting that feast together yesterday. You may feel like the kitchen is the last place you want to be. But if you were thinking, while everyone else zoned out in front of the television, you were scooping [...]
Tags: leftovers·soup·Thanksgiving·turkey
You can title this ”Miracle On ‘S’ Street.” For the past 11 years, while most people are feasting with family, neighbors of Rosemary’s Thyme Bistro, located on the corner of 18th and S streets near tony Dupont Circle here in the District of Columbia, have been quietly pooling their efforts to throw a Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless and needy. [...]
Tags: charity·restaurants·Thanksgiving
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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