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Photos Restaurants serving Thanksgiving dinnerfrom the Boston Globe's Sheryl Julian
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Food Editor Sheryl Julian and food stylist Lisa Falso prepare dishes for featured photographs, including rice salad, left.
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Simonds's rainbow slaw
Say the word barbecue and coleslaw immediately comes to mind, usually with a mayonnaise dressing. This is not your typical slaw.
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Memorable dishes '09
Here are some of the dishes restaurant critic Devra First was most thankful for in the past year.
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Red Lentil is a savory haven for vegans
When their food arrives, diners here sit and stare at their plates, which are architectural, colorful, and beautiful.
Pumpkin whoopie pies?
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Guests leave the gelatin behind and bring more sophisticated food. Well-arranged potlucks spread cost and work around.
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Deep-fried turkey is delicious, but it has its trade-offs
Upside: flavorful, tender meat; downside: no pan juices for gravy, outdoor cooking.
Enough pies for the feast - and some for breakfast
It isn't the turkey and sides that leave most people groaning from overindulgence. The feast would be manageable, if it weren't for the pies. This family may have found a way around this.
- Recipe Chocolate cream pie
Add a little flair to the sideboard
If you're making something for the table, chances are you know what it is. Perhaps you've settled on the main ingredient and you're wondering about whether to prepare it the same way you always have or add a little flair. We're all for flair.
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$100 Thanksgiving menu for 8
This Thanksgiving, we offer a modest proposal. Rather than groaning over too much work and too much food (you’ll do enough groaning over your uncle’s corny humor), why not truly enjoy the biggest food holiday of the year?
One cook’s best dish
In praise of pumpkins’ promise of abundance
Kathy Martin, in her garden in Belmont, uses fresh grated pumpkin in her pumpkin bread to make lighter loaves.
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Making pies with care
The Thanksgiving Pie in the Sky fund-raiser at City Hall Plaza is heating up. The proceeds (pies are $25) benefit Community Servings, the Jamaica Plain-based nonprofit dedicated to providing meals year-round for the critically ill.
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Fresh and never refrigerated
Ottolenghi on Notting Hill in London makes everything truly, unrefrigeratedly fresh -- and displays its bounty like in Middle Eastern markets.
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Straight outta Coolio
You know him as Coolio, the artist behind such mid-’90s hits as “Fantastic Voyage’’ and “Gangsta’s Paradise.’’ But recently he’s reinvented himself as the Ghetto Gourmet, with an online cooking show and now a new cookbook.
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They grow on the family tree
Swaths of crimson berries dot the countryside in Southeastern Massachusetts. Cranberry season is underway and on a bog in Wareham, Keith Mann, 41, a fourth-generation grower (pictured) and his crew of five are dry picking organic cranberries on roughly four acres.
Plonkapalooza is distinguished by the quality of its 50 nominees
Our fifth annual tasting of wines shows there's plenty of value among reds and whites for $12 or less at standard retail markup. Local retailers nominate bottles for consideration.
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