Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Emmy Rossum holding a bottle Team Jacob bottle.

"If the bird gets burned, I'll order Chinese or pizza. I'm like, 'Hey, you didn't know? Pizza's the new thing for Thanksgiving? It's like the new turducken.' … I can't handle the turkey. It's too overwhelming."—Emmy Rossum [Parade] Source: www.parade.com

"Don't even think of serving anything other than turkey.
As it would happen, the Pilgrims served four wild turkeys at the first Thanksgiving in 1621, along with venison, roast duck, clams, eels, wheat and corn breads, leeks, watercress, wild plums, homemade wine, and something that sounds alarmingly like succotash. The key word in this sentence, of course, is turkey. Thanksgiving tradition demands it. Not goose (Christmas). Lamb (Easter), or hamburgers (Fourth of July). Not roast beef, unless you’re also celebrating someone’s retirement. And certainly not fish, which the Pilgrims used to fertilize corn. Turkey. It’s the only way.

Don't get a frozen turkey. Fresh tastes better and looks real (albeit a bit naked). It costs more, but how many days a year do you eat turkey? Go for it. For a dozen people, buy a twenty-to twenty-two pound bird. The bigger the better, since everyone should leave at the end of the day with enough sliced turkey for a couple of sandwiches the next day. (Adapted from "The Modern American Thanksgiving" by Glen Waggoner).