Thanksgiving News Archives

Terri's husband does the cooking and shopping to create a wonderful family feast for Thanksgiving while she helps out with the clean up.

Holiday shoppers spend a sunny afternoon at Union Square in San Francisco, Saturday, Nov.

A Washington state family whose turkey was stolen by a dog on Thanksgiving have quite a story to tell about how they eventually got the bird back.

One Idaho family may have had a tough time celebrating Thanksgiving after a thief was spotted stealing someone's turkey early Thursday morning.

An audience member at "The Jay Leno Show" is especially grateful this Thanksgiving.

Leonard Williams, of Gilbert, pours gravy on a takeout Thanksgiving meal being served at the Chandler Community Center by the Salvation Army.

Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts thought they were going to give thanks with pantry leftovers Thursday as their mission drew to a close, but found turkey dinners awaiting them.

The human tradition of thanksgiving runs back to ancient times as a celebration of bountiful harvests and the need to be respectful to whatever gods or supernatural forces were thought to have made them possible.

WITHOUT QUESTION, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Beyond the food, family and football, Thanksgiving is a great day with a long history.

Dear Readers: Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. We hope you are fortunate enough to be spending the holiday with loving family and friends.

We are deep-frying a turkey and are worried about it exploding as I have been told could happen? Is this a real threat? Should we have a backup plan? Joe, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

After 10 months in office, President Barack Obama granted his first pardon - to "Courage," a turkey spared the Thanksgiving table.

For some people, the whole point of Thanksgiving dinner is to have leftovers. These are the people who intentionally buy a monster-size bird, mash way too many potatoes and pop an extra pie in the oven.

Butterball Turkey Talk-Line specialists took part in cooking and carving classes during day one of the 29th season of Butterball University in October in Naperville, Ill.

What are your plans for Thanksgiving?A Was a time, many years ago, well before husband, daughter and farm, that I volunteered at Equinox - and what a special time that was.A If ever you think life isn't all it should be, and even if it is, volunteer if you can.

What happens when you combine Thanksgiving a ' a holiday dedicated to overindulging a ' with America's love of all things Supersized? Not as much as you'd think.

It won't be just the balloons, marching bands and floats on display in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

What am I really giving in this life? How much could I or should I give? Where am I truly generous, and where do I hold back? And when is generosity out of balance?

These questions show up with special intensity during holiday time, when the very air seems to vibrate with invitations to max out your credit cards on gifts, and when your desire to buy for friends all the stuff you're too sensible to buy for yourself wars with the uneasy feeling that the money you're spending could feed dozens of needy children for a year...

OurEverydayEarth said in the Thanksgiving Forum:

Why not check out our article on not only being healthy but also celebrating a green Thanksgiving... We have a Three L's method to making your Thanksgiving day celebration more eco-friendly; http://www.oureverydayearth.com/2009/11/23/green-thanksgiving/

When tables overflow with seemingly endless courses, how can we make it through Thanksgiving weekend without undoing all of our weight-loss efforts? Read these great suggestions from our Community users...

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.

Clyde No. 60, won't get the chop-chop, Gov. Bob Riley says. Gov. Bob Riley pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey on Friday as part of an annual tradition in Alabama that dates back to 1949.

Get ready to beat the Thanksgiving bulge with a quick family oriented workout! Stacy Ryan from the Green Bay YMCA shows us how.

Waylon Appel is grateful -- grateful for things that have been given to him so that he in turn can give back to others.

"In our 42-year history, we have never witnessed a demand for our services like we are seeing now," said Josh Fogt, public policy manager for Northwest Harvest in Seattle. The organization operates Washington state's largest food bank.

Due to the cornucopia of dishes and competing flavors of the traditional Thanksgiving meal, there is no one wine that will be the perfect match with every dish.

Can you believe there's only one week 'til Thanksgiving? Hopefully you've got almost everything ready.

AAA says that despite the poor economy, more people will be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday this year, though some means of travel will be used less frequently.

Theresa Hanners, executive director of The Caring Center in Lebanon, inspects a can of green beans donated Monday by the Lebanon Senior Center.

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.

To avoid any risk of Thanksgiving dinner not being indulgent enough, we created this over-the-top turkey and gravy affectionately dubbed 'bacon bird.' The goal was an easy way to infuse a turkey with deep flavor, while also keeping it moist, and create richly savory pan drippings for gravy.

Deep-frying. Wood-smoking. Sous vide. The mind-numbing number of suggestions for mining flavor from the typically unforgiving Thanksgiving bird have proliferated in recent years.

Cooking that big Thanksgiving dinner may not cost you as much as you might think.

Robert C. Byrd a ' then a U.S. representative a ' is shown in 1958. On Wednesday, he'll become the longest serving member of either house of Congress.

Dear DoubleTake, I have been dating 52-year-old man for 3 months. We get along great.

Recipe for a Great Turkey:

• Roasting pan

• Stick of butter

• Can of cola

• 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce, or more if you like it sweeter

• Salt, pepper and garlic powder

• Turkey breast

• Small lemon

• Small onion

• Full hand of sage, thyme, chives, oregano and rosemary

This year, I plan to cook a traditional Thanksgiving feast for my family. But the menu will not include familiar favorites like mashed potatoes, ham, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. The ubiquitous Thanksgiving banquet has little in common with the original harvest feast that took place in the fall of 1621—including the date on which we celebrate.

Thanksgiving’s beginnings herald back to Plymouth, Massachusetts, when two groups gathered for a three-day harvest feast celebration that has since been referred to as “The First Thanksgiving.”

A A The Big Apple Long referred to as the center of American business, New York is a melting pot of cultures and landscapes.

Thanksgiving is coming, and it appears the turkeys may be fighting back. An angry flock of turkeys that roosts in Landsdowne, Virginia has taken to attacking commuters.

As shoppers look to get an edge on the best holiday doorbuster deals, Meijer is leaving nothing to mystery.

Thanksgiving is all about stuffing yourself with great food after waiting way too many hours for that Turkey to cook in the oven.

Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station.

Not everyone can afford to have a big Thanksgiving dinner this year...two restaurants are opening their doors to anyone who is in need this Thanksgiving Day.

By now, nearly everyone with a television has seen the teases for former Alaska Gov.

OLIVER TWIST had it all wrong. Those Broadway lyrics should have been, "Pie, glorious pie.

Photo credit: J. Conrad Williams Jr. Rev. Diane Dunne stands in the charred remains of her food pantry and soup kitchen after a fire broke out on Sunday Nov 15, 2009.

The Concerned Clergy of Greater Whitfield County will have a Thanksgiving Day service on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Community Fellowship Church on Fredrick Street in Dalton.

The annual free community-wide Thanksgiving dinner is moving to a new location: the Hope Community on West Pensacola Street.

Southern California is famous for its gorgeous weather and year-round indoor-outdoor spaces.

The following hot lines and Web sites can help you get through Thanksgiving crises big and small.

While we are all stumbling under the poor economy and jobless rate, animal shelters and charities are suffering right along with us.

Thanksgiving is almost upon us. If the chore of entertaining and putting out a big Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings seems daunting, well relax.

Thanksgiving can also be a very stressful time if you don't have a plan. Here is a list of my top ten steps to reduce the potential stress you may run into as you prepare for your Thanksgiving feast.

USDA's first "Turkey Tweets" campaign started this week to give consumers tips for preparing a successful and safe Thanksgiving day meal.

The Kitchen is the Social Center of any home & the most important place in the world.

A group of churches has joined forces with the Salvation Army to make sure that anyone who needs a hot meal and a place to eat on Thanksgiving will be served.

Dear Miss Manners: On Thanksgiving, my husband and I have for a number of years gone to a family dinner at my sister's. Usually, at least eight other relatives also attend.

Laurel First Assembly of God will host its annual Thanksgiving "Feed the Hungry" event at 7 p.m. Nov.

"A Thanksgiving wine should have a medium body, be lower in tannins and able to handle the complexity of flavors offered in a Thanksgiving meal," said Katrin Naelapaa, director of Wines from Spain.

While a fire at the Jamestown Presbyterian Church did not cause structural damage, it wiped out the church's food pantry, stocked with enough food to feed 47 families for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Residents prepare plates at the 2008 Communitywide Thanksgiving. At 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

Between Halloween costumes and Christmas decorations, Thanksgiving can get lost in the shuffle.

DEAR AMY: My husband and I will celebrate Thanksgiving at my daughter and son-in-law's house.

As if traveling with the kids over the holidays weren't tough enough, this year we must contend with airline surcharges and swine flu, as well as all the usual annoyances and delays that go along with traveling -- especially with children -- during the busiest travel weeks of the year.

A wild turkey may seal its fate for Thanksgiving if it continues playing chicken on the New Jersey Turnpike.

No butter, cream or milk? You may wonder if vegan cookies are even worth eating.

One of my favorites is a concoction called Pumpkin Pie Brownies, which has a brownie base underlining a pumpkin pie filling. Oh yes, and chocolate chips on the top. Here is the recipe, just in time for Thanksgiving. I highly recommend it for kids who feel that dessert is not dessert unless it contains chocolate. This is adapted from “Vegan Cookies.”

Last year, 35 students participated in the program. Currently, 25 students and nine families have registered to participate, and more families are needed.

He's a guy with a nickname that just puts a smile on your face. Once again, Mr. Thanksgiving is getting ready for his big community holiday meal.

On November 23, 2009, entertainer-radio & television personality-author Steve Harvey and his wife Marjorie will celebrate the spirit of the holiday, by giving away more than 6,000 turkeys to needy families across the country.

Pass the gravy -- plus the phone and the remote control. It's dinnertime in America.

The assignment for Detroit school kids: Draw something straight out of your dream neighborhood.

Serving a healthy Thanksgiving dinner doesn't have to mean giving up that pumpkin pie or those buttery sweet potatoes.

The economy has done wonders for improving home cooking skills, prompting many of us to cook from scratch to save a little scratch.

There is something to be said for the 'splurt' sound made when dumping a can of cranberry sauce into a serving bowl.

Deep-frying. Wood-smoking. Sous vide. The mind-numbing number of suggestions for mining flavor from the typically unforgiving Thanksgiving bird have proliferated in recent years.

Note: The cornbread is best made a day in advance. This recipe makes more stuffing than the average turkey can take, but the extra can be made into a cornbread pudding as indicated below, or just drizzled with a cup of chicken stock and baked..

Sticking to your goals can be difficult during the holidays. However the tips below will help you enjoy Thanksgiving without losing track of your fitness goals.

The comments we hear around the Thanksgiving table are as traditional as the food.

Preparing Thanksgiving dinner is enough of a pressure cooker, never mind having to do on-the-fly math to get it right.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he's likely to appeal federal court decisions blocking the eventual executions of two death row inmates.

The National Dog Show Presented by Purina has become a holiday tradition for Thanksgiving Day family television viewing.

Two Good Samaritans from Salinas face the daunting task of organizing more than 1,300 Thanksgiving meals in the next two weeks.

Housewife makes turkey dinner, circa 1955 It is arguably the most anticipated dinner in the American calender year.

Several balloons scheduled to make an appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade were put to the test.

WASHINGTON -- An airline industry trade group predicts that passenger traffic over the Thanksgiving holiday will drop 4 percent from last year.

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The United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will likely hold bilateral talks in early December, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency on Monday quoted a senior government official as saying.

Each Thanksgiving season, a few unlucky Americans manage to burn down their houses trying to deep fry a turkey.

Home is where the heart is, according to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora. Sambora grew up on a dead-end street in Woodbridge, but his success as lead guitarist for Bon Jovi has led him to exotic locations around the world.

Television cooking star Rachael Ray is boosting the local food supply for a struggling Ohio town.

Grilling the family bird for Thanksgiving has gone mainstream . A few tips for that non-traditional turkey: * Check to make sure the grill, smoker or fryer is in working order.

Creating a Thanksgiving table that will draw in your guests and then leave them lingering may be an art, but it's a simple one centered in tradition.

On Thursday, Icilda Cole was talking with her son, Otis Beckford, about all the fun they would have at the annual family Thanksgiving get-together in Palm Bay.

Federal guidelines state that your turkey is safe to eat when the innermost part of the thigh reaches 165 F. If the turkey is stuffed the stuffing must also reach 165 F. Preparing Thanksgiving dinner is enough of a pressure cooker, never mind having to do on-the-fly math to get it right.

We all know how hard it can be to resist those begging eyes and that furry face you can deny nothing on any given day, and on Thanksgiving - with the fragrant smell of that really rich dinner swimming throughout the house - the temptation can be that much worse.

Relax this Thanksgiving by celebrating in the historic setting of the Officers' Club with a traditional Thanksgiving buffet Nov.

If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they're likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets.

WASHINGTON -- It's about jobs, stupid. Like the leftovers of a fat turkey on Thanksgiving, exit polls from Tuesday night's Republican surges in Virginia and New Jersey and the GOP's fratricide in New York's 23rd congressional district gave pundits, pollsters and political consultants a new set of bones to pick through.

The jack-o-lanterns are drying out, and you aren't ready to pull out the garland.

Beyonce will later this month release a live concert DVD and companion CD, and a new song, "Video Phone," featuring Lady Gaga.

With Thanksgiving just three weeks away, the city is making plans for the 29th annual Light Up Louisville.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 11:25 a.m. MILWAUKEE a ' Your Thanksgiving dinner could cost more in Wisconsin than in states that don't have a minimum markup law.

Do you have a great Thanksgiving leftover idea? How about a tomato sauce recipe? Send them our way and they might get published! Photo credit: Newsday / Ari Mintz This salad is a way to make use of leftover turkey from Thanksgiving .

Fall is a busy time for decorating, second only to Christmas, and the period when vegetables are valued more for their beauty than their flavor.

Billy Currington will be featured in the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City to be broadcast live Nov.

I will guarantee you that the Pilgrims didn't worry about which wine to drink with their first New World turkey.

The NFL and the Detroit Lions will honor the 50th anniversary of the founding of Motown Records with a Motown-themed halftime show during the Thanksgiving Day game against the Green Bay Packers.

Murray County Democrats will host their annual Thanksgiving dinner/meeting on Thursday, Nov.

A jury was sworn in today for the trial of a 25-year-old mother charged in the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend at their Lake Elsinore apartment on Thanksgiving Day four years ago.

We all have our traditional Thanksgiving menu we use from year to year, with little or no variations.

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Thanksgiving printables are usually reserved for kids, however, this year, Disney.com made sure to gear a little fun towards the adults.

The world's largest retailer aims for high holiday sales. Wal-Mart Inc. is slashing its prices on turkeys and flat-panel televisions.

Between Halloween costumes and Christmas decorations, Thanksgiving can get lost in the shuffle.

" The Community Thanksgiving Dinner Foundation is seeking volunteers and food donations to continue the tradition of serving a hot, hearty meal on Thanksgiving Day.

DEAR AMY: A few months ago, I lost two close relatives. After their deaths, which were only about a week apart, I felt depressed for weeks.

Across the creek and through the woods we go... not to grandma's house, but to Blair, Tennessee on the Secret City Scenic train, operated by Southern Appalachia Railway Museum.

While thousands of Canadians line up for vaccinations seeking protection against swine flu, countless others across the country have already had their brush with the H1N1 virus.

The Laurel Leader-Call is working on its annual "Good News" edition which will publish Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving in our nation is observed as a special time to give thanks for blessing received.

The R&B diva will be hitting fans with a pair of major releases and a TV special just in time for the holiday season.

Most likely, you've been planning your Thanksgiving Day meal for a little while now.

If you plan to travel around the upcoming holidays, prepare to pay a little more a ' again.

Nothing is as it was just three weeks ago along this stretch of Nile Road. Certainly not State Route 410 or the Naches River.

The Hilton Dallas Park Cities announces its Thanksgiving Day champagne brunch complete with a Texas-style twist on the traditional Thanksgiving favorites.

Planning has begun for the 15th annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner, which will be Nov.

If you're looking to switch things up this Thanksgiving and not serve a whole roast turkey, I've cooked up three recipes for you to consider.

My husband had to work on Thanksgiving weekend, so my younger sister invited us and our children to a holiday party at her house with guests that included mostly her partner's family.

God's Little Angels is preparing to serve hundreds of senior citizens a Thanksgiving meal next month.