20 Thanksgiving Favorites Updated
Thanksgiving can challenge even a sophisticated cook—perhaps because the most beloved dishes sometimes feel a little outdated. The F&W Test Kitchen gives these recipes a delicious makeover.
Consider the celery and canned-olive tray. How many holiday meals across America once kicked off with this appetizer? It's so 1950s (you might say, rolling your eyes), but there's something about it that you can't help but love: Retro American dishes like this tap into a collective nostalgia for the foods so many of us grew up with. That's why, in developing the recipes that follow, we decided to focus on the sometimes outdated ones that traditionally define Thanksgiving. Our goal was to make over these dishes without losing their identity, to create new versions for adventurous cooks who, like us, still crave turkey, stuffing, cranberries and sweet potatoes on the last Thursday in November. Not to mention celery and olives. This last dish, for instance, appears on our table in a magically altered form, as celery strips tossed with chopped Calamata olives and ricotta salata in an anchovy dressing. It's so good we couldn't stop eating it. But we did, if only to move on to recipes like turkey with bourbon-pecan gravy (hold the giblets), corn bread stuffing with chorizo, curried sweet potatoes and winter squashchocolate parfaits.
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