Thanksgiving News

Holiday meals are wonderful in every way, almost. I love cooking a feast, but creating the same traditional meal every year makes me antsy.

Donna Hewett, the owner of The Sauce Restaurant, stands in her restaurant on Thursday in Farmington.

Amid hundreds of spectators, most of them members of the media, the President makes a few cute comments, issues a pardon for the turkey and a "runner-up" , and then sends the turkeys off to a petting zoo or ranch, where they live about a year.

This letter pertains to the letter written by Margaret and Robert McGee and the decision made by the Old Rochester Regional School Committee to make Good Friday a school day.

Put down your spatula and pop in a video of "What's Cooking?", an ode to Thanksgiving as prepared in the kitchens of Latina Mercedes Ruehl, African-American Alfre Woodard, Vietnamese Joan Chen and Jewish Lai= nie Kazan.

Thanksgiving appetizers should help buy the cook some extra time in the kitchen, but without filling everyone up before the big feast.

Carrying boxes of food Thursday at the Navy Club Ship 91 in Lebanon that will be given to needy military families are, from left, Dick Winters, Todd Doney and Robert Eckert.

As the weekend box office shapes up, "Heaven Is For Real" got an early jump while "Transcendence" enters.

Years ago, I learned what I considered to be a very valuable lesson. In my mind the holiday season begins with Thanksgiving.

You can't keep a good woman and her band down -- which is why Sharon Jones promises there's more where "Give the People What they Want," her fifth album with the Dap-Kings, came from.

Open Faced Turkey Sandwich $10.95 Roasted turkey breast, in gravy, on toasted sourdough, Served with mashed potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

THEY'RE THE PRIDE OF BUTLER COUNTY. THE NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED LAKOTA WEST HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND... BUT TONIGHT.... THEIR LEADER IS STEPPING DOWN... AMID A SCANDAL.

Catholic Charities & the St. Vincent's Programs is asking the community for non-perishable food donations to give away at our upcoming "Thanksgiving in May" event happening Wednesday, May 21 at 8 a.m. at the St. Vincent's Food Pantry.

If Thanksgiving is all about the sides, Easter is all about the main. While we agonize over styles of stuffings, whole or smooth cranberry sauces, sweet potatoes with or without marshmallows, and so many other Turkey Day dilemmas, we tend to just cobble together a what-have-you assortment of sides to accompany the beloved Easter ham or lamb.

Easter , like Thanksgiving or Christmas or any other food-centric holiday, is a time to sit back and relax with friends and family and celebrate with a veritable feast.

It's not a crazy as it sounds. And it's much easier than you think. We created a delicious and beautiful baked ham that is stuffed with layer upon layer of sweet potato slices.

I love Easter candy. I love biting the ears off chocolate bunnies and picking out all the red jelly beans.

There's the One Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and then there is the 'eucharistic business' of the many, and the proud.

Easter may not have the commercial draw of Christmas, but it's still an important holiday.

Butter sculptures in the shape of a lamb are a traditional part of Easter meals among Buffalo's large Polish-American population.