A Post-Thanksgiving Digest
Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Flip the Bird
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Turkeys in need of a pardon.
Read “A Gobble Without a Cause”
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Trying not to kill a mockingbird.
Read “Avian Voices” by James Seay
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Chicken or egg?
Read “Cage Wars” by Deb Olin Unferth
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Fair or fowl?
Read “The Chicken Explosion” by George Henry Soule
Asides
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A dish to die for?
Read “Wild Mushrooms Without Fear” by James Nathan Miller
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Up the beanstalk.
Read “Bringing in the Beans” by Ted Genoways
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On the dough we knead.
Read “Bread, and the Stuff We Eat” by James Rorty
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Against the grain.
Read “The Quinoa Quarrel” by Lisa M. Hamilton
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Veggie tales.
Read “The Social Status of a Vegetable” by M.F.K. Fisher
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“We are trying today with our cookery to condone the sins of our Puritan ancestors.”
Read “The Lordly Dish” by Ford Maddox Ford
Just Desserts
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Pie on your face.
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Half-baked facts.
Read “Life of Pie” by Jeff Johnson
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Satisfying and delicious.
Read “The Candy Man” by Alexander Theroux
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Vanilla, extracted.
Read “Cupcake Land” by Richard Rhodes
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To serve with a glass of milk.
Cheers
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“It is not wonderful we should have set apart in every year one day for holding a high mass of thanksgiving; the only wonder is that we do not hold two of them. But maybe the institution of a second festival of gratitude is being reserved for the time when Divine Bounty shall vouchsafe to us, in addition to all this wealth of solid comfort, a liquid worthy to moisten it.”
Read “Wine in America and American Wine” by W.J. Flagg
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“I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does to the soul.”
Read “Wine-Bibbing” by Alec Waugh
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What’s neat about whisky.
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On choosing not to raise a glass.
Read “Under the Influence” by Scott Russell Sanders