When Americans sit down at the holiday dinner table, they are likely to see a dish called "candied yams". But this is a misnomer. While sweet potatoes and yams are both edible tubers, they otherwise have very little in common. Biologically, the two crops are entirely unrelated. Yams are an Old World crop, while sweet potatoes are native to the Americas...

The cornucopia, a horn brimming over with fruits of the harvest, is a symbol of abundance indelibly linked, at least in American minds, with Thanksgiving. It is far more ancient than the Pilgrims, however, and dates back to the 5th century...

The Chinese dish known as Drunken Chicken has nothing on a bird that'll be dressing up a New York City tavern's Thanksgiving fare -- it may require legal ID to eat.

Nov. 22 - The recession has hit the Mississippi Food Network hard. For the first time in its history, the 25-year-old food bank won't be able to buy turkeys and distribute them to thousands of needy Mississippi residents at Thanksgiving.

The scene around him in a vast industrial space looks like Santa's Workshop, but John Piper, the man behind Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, compares organizing the annual extravaganza to planning a huge holiday meal - with a lot of trimmings.

"On this day, I will let go of anger.

On this day, I will let go of worry.

On this day, I will give thanks for my many blessings.

On this day, I will do my work honestly.

On this day, I will be kind to my neighbor and every living thing."

You could fill a small video store with films about Christmas or Halloween, and there are a number of notable movies with themes and plots built around New Years Eve and Valentine’s Day. But Thanksgiving, one of only two truly native and pervasive national American holidays (the other being the Fourth of July, which is somewhat less ritualistic and charged with emotion), only pops up now and again as a motif in movies and almost never as the chief subject of or occasion for them...

Happy Thanksgiving this week. May you all have something or someone to be thankful for ... family, friends, garbagemen, Carol's handyman brother Marty, our servicemen and women, etc.

My neighbor Lisa always celebrated two Thanksgivings while growing up in Ohio, a tradition she and her siblings continue every year.First, they have a traditional “American Thanksgiving” on Thanksgiving Day with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Then, on Friday, they have “Lebanese Thanksgiving” with hummus, kibbe, fattoush, grape leaves, hashwe rice pilaf, and meat and spinach pies. That makes for a lot of cooking and a lot of food, but with five siblings and a ton of cousins, nobody misses a beat.

My father used to love Thanksgiving because he was a cornbread-dressing fan of the first degree.

Salvation Army officials are expecting a record turnout when they distribute Thanksgiving dinner in Wheeling Sunday.

Last year at Thanksgiving we bought a turkey from a local farm and it cost $58. I couldn't help noticing, around the same time, that our local supermarkets were offering a comparably-sized bird for $8. The local turkey tasted quite good, but I've enjoyed many a Thanksgiving with the store-bought variety, and it seemed to me not just painful but ...

Salvation Army officials are expecting a record turnout when they distribute 1,200 Thanksgiving food baskets.

At holiday time, trains whiz through Richard Kloewer's yard, past the lighted evergreen trees, dolls, teddy bears, even a miniature Harley Davidson display.

"In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger," says a United Nations World Food Programme online video.

Economist Raj Patel, author of “Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System,” [said] he was “gobsmacked” by the U.S. hunger numbers, which he finds appalling: “The reason that we have this huge increase in hunger in the United States, as around the world, isn’t because there isn’t enough food around. Actually, we produced a pretty reliable solid crop last year. ... The reason people go hungry is because of poverty.”

For the upcoming holiday, The Reporter invites readers to answer the following questions, using 100 words or less: On Thanksgiving, who would you like to thank? What would you like to say to them?

From our design experts, here small things you can do to give your dining room a minor face-lift before Thanksgiving Day dinner.

Not to be unpatriotic, but another "cranberry" outshines the traditional Thanksgiving cranberry.

This fruit, sometimes called mountain cranberry, partridgeberry or foxberry, is esteemed in other parts of the world. You may know it by its Scandinavian name, lingonberry, because that's where it is most popular, with many thousands of tons harvested each year from the wild.

From classic roast turkey to a tradition-bucking, maple-glazed duck, from a buffet to unchain you from the kitchen to some lighter fare that won't make you feel like the stuffed bird, get ready to be inspired.

It's five days until Thanksgiving, and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone more grateful than the Weiks family.

Doogie underwent liver transplant surgery Oct. 29 at Rochester Methodist Hospital, a facility that's part of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

It's the end of one long journey for him and his family, and the start of another. Doogie was 1 year old when he was diagnosed with glycogen storage disease, which meant he lacked an enzyme that allowed his liver to release stored energy from fat and sugar. The disease triggered low blood sugar and enlarged his liver, making it susceptible to bleeding.