AT THE table
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Talkin’ TURKEY
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by KAITLYN GOALEN
EACH YEAR AROUND OCTOBER, I BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT WHAT I’D LIKE TO make for Thanksgiving. There are some stalwarts that make it into the menu every year (my grandmother’s chile-cheese dip, a sweet potato-cardamom-coconut pie from a cookbook I edited, cornbread stuffing), and then I start scouring the websites and cookbooks of my favorite authors for more inspiration. I look to Nigel Slater, the British author, for vegetable inspiration; I lean on Ina Garten or Julia Child for a reliable mashed potato recipe. One by one, my meal is planned down to the very last dish, until all that’s left is the turkey.
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photographs by JILLIAN CLARK
