FILE – In this Nov. 29, 2020, file photo, travelers walk through Terminal 3 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. With some Americans now paying the price for what they did over Thanksgiving, health officials are warning people — begging them, even — not to make the same mistake during […]
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Watch Chrissy Teigen’s Heartwarming Thanksgiving Dance With Her Dad
Chrissy Teigen is leaning on her entire family for the holidays following her devastating pregnancy loss in September. On Black Friday, the model and TV host posted on Instagram a video showing her carrying her and husband John Legend‘s 4-year-old daughter Luna Stephens while slow dancing with her father, Ron Teigen Jr, in […]
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Thanksgiving turkey leftovers: how to store and freeze, make bone broth, plus a recipe for turkey salad | Food + Living
We are a Thanksgiving party of two with a 17-pound spice-rubbed turkey parked in the refrigerator. Despite our best intentions — and those of a local farmer — for a smallish bird, things did not go as planned, and we have ended up with an embarrassment of riches better suited […]
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Watch Chrissy Teigen’s Heartwarming Thanksgiving Dance With Her Dad – E! Online
Chrissy Teigen is leaning on her entire family for the holidays following her devastating pregnancy loss in September. On Black Friday, the model and TV host posted on Instagram a video showing her carrying her and husband John Legend‘s 4-year-old daughter Luna Stephens while slow dancing with her father, Ron Teigen Jr, in […]
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A wartime Thanksgiving in Cairo: A lesson for our COVID era
“Let us make it a family affair,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt — trying gamely to muster up some holiday spirit — said to Winston Churchill when he invited the British prime minister to Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 25, 1943. It was a disquieting holiday season, an unsteady and baneful time not […]
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Op-Ed: Mustering up gratitude during a COVID Thanksgiving
As I was making my weekly grocery deliveries to my mother and my in-laws in El Monte last week, I spotted a line of more than 25 cars stopping traffic at Santa Anita Avenue. They were waiting to enter the parking lot of the food pantry there. The patiently inching […]
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10 Thanksgiving TV Episodes That Will Help You Get through This Holiday
We’ve all had to accept that this year’s Thanksgiving is going to suck. We’re closing in on 9 months in various degrees of quarantine, and it’s that “various” part that ensures we stay in quarantine. Because of that, we’re not traveling, we’re not gathering, it feels like we don’t have […]
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As An Indigenous Woman, I Always Hate Thanksgiving. This Year I’m Terrified Of It.
I used to think it was enough, every Thanksgiving, to post Wednesday Addams’ famous Thanksgiving monologue. Like most Indian kids across the country, when I first saw “Addams Family Values,” I delighted in the speech delivered by the iconic little outcast. It was one of the first times I remember […]
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Thanksgiving Day tradition on hold but Dearborn family grateful
For more than two decades, the extended family and friends of Jack and Nancy Auffenberg have gathered at the couple’s Dearborn home for a buffet-style Thanksgiving, a sumptuous feast highlighted by a 25-pound brined turkey and Nancy’s homemade stuffing, in which the ingredients include freshly baked bread and her own […]
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Thanksgiving dinners stay small this year, some go online
MARYSVILLE — This isn’t the first time Wendie Fouard has hosted a virtual Thanksgiving. Her son is in the U.S. Air Force. This is the second year in a row he has been deployed on the holiday. “We kind of had a head start on the virtual living,” said Fouard, […]
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Job diary: A Butterball Turkey expert who works on Thanksgiving
Phyllis Kramer is a Butterball Turkey Talk-Line expert based in Aurora, Illinois. She’s been working for the Talk-Line during the holidays for 18 years, answering customer questions about how to choose, thaw, prepare, and cook their turkeys. Over the years, Kramer says she’s gotten countless wild calls including customers who’ve […]
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7 Thanksgiving side dishes to make the day before
When cooking Thanksgiving dinner, there are steps you can take to reduce your risk of getting food poisoning. (iStock) If you’ve cooked Thanksgiving dinner before, you know it can be stressful. The day is packed with gathering ingredients, setting the table – and, of course, the not-so-small task of cooking […]
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What to do with kids in Knoxville over Thanksgiving
CLOSE The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be turned into a TV-only event, featuring performances from Broadway casts and Dolly Parton. USA TODAY Happy Thanksgiving! Family fun time may look different with COVID-19, but Knox News has rounded up some activities you can do with your family over the holiday […]
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Your (satirical) guide to a successful Zoom Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving has the potential to be the weirdest ever since many of us will celebrate via Zoom. (Jade Cuevas / Los Angeles Times) In ordinary years, I spend Thanksgiving week with my family in Minneapolis quietly judging them for things I don’t like about myself. This year, Dr. Anthony […]
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In time for Thanksgiving, Army vet’s home mortgage paid in full
When he purchased his Buckhead home in 2017, Berschinski knew he needed to make repairs just to be able to enter and exit his residence in his wheelchair. He hired a handyman to build a ramp from the driveway up to the back deck but still couldn’t access his home […]
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This New Orleans-style Thanksgiving po’ boy is the answer to all your holiday leftovers
Holiday eating traditions are precious for many of us. We wait all year long to eat that certain dish with our favorite people. One of my Thanksgiving traditions has been to join the long line at Parkway Bakery & Tavern in my hometown of New Orleans to get my once-a-year […]
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‘First Thanksgiving’ Wampanoag Tribe Faces New Epidemic
When Paula Peters was in second grade in Philadelphia in the mid-1960s, listening to a teacher talk about Plymouth colony and the Mayflower, a student asked what happened to the Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims settle, the Wampanoag. The teacher said they were all dead. “When she mentioned we’re […]
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400 Years After the ‘First Thanksgiving,’ the Tribe Who Fed the Pilgrims Continues to Fight for Their Land Amid Another Epidemic
Weetoomoo Carey, 8, left, and Jackolynn Carey, 5, Wampanoag Nipmucs from Mashpee, look across to the Mayflower replica anchored near Plymouth Rock on Nov. 26, 1991. They were with a group of Native Americans gathered for a day of mourning in response to the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving Weetoomoo Carey, 8, left, […]
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7 tips for a meaningful virtual Thanksgiving
With COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on travel and gatherings, many families will be navigating Thanksgiving celebrations virtually this year. Public health officials urge limiting festivities to household family members to mitigate the virus’ spread. They suggest connecting with extended family and friends through myriad social networking apps. To help, Zoom is […]