Before this year, I'd never brined a turkey before. The process, meant to infuse turkey with flavor and liquid certainly has its fan...

Quinoa is all the rage these days, but it's not universally loved, as The Washington Post recently wrote about. I'll admit to fin...

Stuffing is one of the essential dishes of a good Thanksgiving dinner. And there's nothing wrong with having more than one option. I...

This dish is inspired by a recent lunch at Jaleo , where Chris and I started our meal with two salads: a beet salad with grapefruit, oran...

Butternut squash soup would make an elegant first course to a more formal Thanksgiving dinner. I prefer to serve my dinner family style, ...

Food (Section) Fight! is my weekly look at  The Washington Post's Food section  and  The New York Times' Dining section  with my ver...

Making cranberry sauce from scratch is so simple, I wonder why I bought the canned product for so many years. As a child, my grandmother ...