Tag: Thanksgiving

November 24, 2015

Choosing the Right Wine for Thanksgiving

The following advice on choosing the right wine to go with your turkey and stuffing is from Natalie Berkowitz, author of The Winemaker’s Hand: Conversations on Talent, Technique, and Terroir: The Pilgrims couldn’t have imagined how their fabled first Thanksgiving...

November 23, 2015

The Science of Cooking Your Thanksgiving Turkey via Herve This (and a Dishwasher!)

“Use the dishwasher! For the next holiday meal, I recommend that you prepare two turkeys. Cook one in the dishwasher, in a plastic bag, for several cycles of your machine.”—Herve This With Thanksgiving just a couple of days away, we...

November 26, 2014

Doughnuts as Thanksgiving Food and the Early History of the Holiday in NYC

The surprising history of doughnuts and Thanksgiving as explained by Andrew Smith, a contributor to “Gastropolis”

November 24, 2014

How to Cook Your Thanksgiving Turkey in the Dishwasher!? Herve This Explains

Herve This explains how to cook a turkey in the dishwasher and dispenses some other turkey-related advice just in time for Thanksgiving!

November 26, 2013

Talking Turkey with Herve This!

“Use the dishwasher! For the next holiday meal, I recommend that you prepare two turkeys. Cook one in the dishwasher, in a plastic bag, for several cycles of your machine.”—Herve This In highlighting our books on this blog, we like...

November 21, 2012

The Science Behind Thanksgiving and Overeating

We conclude our look at the history of Thanksgiving by considering one of the darker traditions of the holiday: overating. Sure, the food is delicious and plentiful but we should know better. Are there other factors that can explain why...

November 20, 2012

Doughnuts for Thanksgiving: A New York City Tradition, Apparently

We continue our week-long (or, at least short week) feature on Thanksgiving with a quick look at the holiday’s history in New York City. In his chapter, “The Food and Drink of New York from 1624 to 1898,” from Gastropolis:...

November 19, 2012

A Soul Food Thanksgiving

As the recent and wildly successful university press week reminded us, university presses provide readers with a wide range of new ideas and intellectual perspectives. However, as a university press with a list in food studies, Columbia University Press also...

November 22, 2011

Andrew Smith Reveals the Truth About Thanksgiving

In the chapter “Giving Thanks” from his book Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Andrew Smith reveals that “the whole idea that the Pilgrims were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in America was, in fact...