The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year
For many Native Americans, the Covid-19 toll and the struggle over racial inequity make this high time to re-examine the holiday, and a cruel history.
By BRETT ANDERSON
How to Do Thanksgiving With Less Waste
For environmental advocates, it includes small measures like reusing ingredients, and broader efforts like rethinking our relationship to the holiday.
By PRIYA KRISHNA
TECH TIP
How to Have a Fully Remote Family Thanksgiving
Skipping travel this year to stop the spread of Covid-19? Here’s how to digitally reimagine the holiday, from meal prep to after-dinner activities.
By J. D. BIERSDORFER
Europe Keeps Schools Open, Not Restaurants. The U.S. Has Other Ideas.
Science increasingly suggests classrooms can be kept open safely. But dining rooms pose a different problem.
By SHARON OTTERMAN and ELIZA SHAPIRO
How Does Ina Do It?
Ina Garten, a.k.a. the Barefoot Contessa, has a loyal, diverse and growing fan base that follows her anywhere — even through quarantine and a Thanksgiving lockdown.
By JULIA MOSKIN
This Is Not Your Average Pumpkin Soup
Caramelized onions, apple cider and a touch of curry powder make this simple soup worthy of the Thanksgiving table.
Lidey Heuck’s creamy pumpkin soup.
By Lidey Heuck
16 Festive Thanksgiving Mains That Aren’t Turkey
You might be skipping turkey this year because it’s too big or just too much work. We’ve got options to get excited about.
1. Simplest Roast Chicken
2. Meatball Toad-in-the-Hole
3. Roasted Mushrooms With Braised Black Lentils and Parsley Croutons
4. Mrouzia Lamb Shanks
5. Meat and Potato Skillet Gratin
6. Roast Chicken With Fennel
7. Vegetarian Mushroom Wellington
8. Mushroom Potpie
9. Roast Pork With Milk
10. Mussakhan (Roast Chicken With Sumac and Red Onions)
11. Creamy White Bean and Fennel Casserole
12. Slow-Roasted Beef
13. Onion Tart
14. Swedish Meatballs
15. Pan-Roasted Duck With Wild Mushrooms
16. Potato-and-Radicchio Tart
By ALEXA WEIBEL
19 Make-Ahead Recipes for Thanksgiving Day
A little planning goes a long way to help a holiday meal come together easily.
1. Spicy Peanut and Pumpkin Soup
2. Celery Salad With Apples and Blue Cheese
3. Lemon-Garlic Kale Salad
4. Everything Parker House Rolls
5. Mashed Potato Casserole
6. Mushroom Bread Pudding
7. Five-Spice Roasted Carrots With Toasted Almonds
8. Green Bean Casserole
9. Roasted Turnips and Winter Squash With Agave Glaze
10. Scalloped Potato Gratin
11. Sweet Potato Casserole
12. French Onion Panade
13. Make-Ahead Gravy
14. Cranberry-Orange Jelly
15. Cranberry-Orange Relish
16. Sweet Potato Casserole Pie
17. Apple Cider Whoopie Pies
18. Apple Pie Bars
19. Pumpkin Layer Cake With Caramel Buttercream
By Alexa Weibel
A GOOD APPETITE
Even the Littlest Helping Hands Can Make Thanksgiving
This year’s scaled-down festivities present the perfect opportunity to start developing kitchen skills.
Crumbling cornbread for stuffing is a great task for kids of any age.
By Melissa Clark
When Only Homegrown Sweet Potatoes Will Do
For many Southerners, a holiday meal isn’t complete without sweet potatoes direct from the grower.
Although yams and sweet potatoes are interchangeable to many Americans, yams belong to another plant group; most African diaspora yams are large, with fibrous skin and pale white flesh. (During the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture allowed Louisiana farmers to market the Puerto Rican sweet potato variety as yams, according to Ms. McGreger’s book.)
By NICOLE TAYLOR
Take Hot Chocolate to the Next Level
It’s getting cold and your table might be outside. Here are ways to warm up with adult versions of winter’s favorite drink.
By STEVEN KURUTZ