Keep Your Thanksgiving Day Side Dishes Simple

Keep it simple and go with a baked yam or sweet potato served with butter, sugar, cinnamon, and a twist of lemon Previous to the arrival...

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Collards, A Must on Any Respectable Thanksgiving Day Table

When doing research for my book Hog and Hominy , I found that collard greens have a long association with black folks and religion datin...

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A Gumbo on Thanksgiving: Culinary Flexibility in the Carolinas

Photo of a Shrimp Gumbo Over Carolina Rice, great Thanksgiving Day dish Africans came to South Carolina early, both directly from Africa, an...

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Try a Spicy Caribbean Stew This Thanksgiving

Photo of a classic Caribbean Pepper-pot stew. The history behind the stew and the recipe are here below! In the Caribbean, British planters ...

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Fruit Pies, History, and Thanksgiving Day Recipes

Here is a photo of a cobbler I made this fall. Apple and peach cobblers are much easier to make, including the pie crust, then most peop...

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Maryland Food: You've Got to Try the Crab Cakes!

Let me close my discussion on my 84 Syracuse lacrosse team trip to Baltimore with a food thought. Following a morning workout, one afternoon...

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UNC’s All-American and Hall of Fame Defensemen Tom Haus

Photo of UNC’s All-American Defensemen and Hall of Famer Tom Haus (Loyola) I don’t member much from my first game in a Syracuse Universit...

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On the Lacrosse Field and in Life: "fake it until you make it"

Photo: This is the game program cover from our 84 Syracuse lacrosse season. That’s All American Tim Nelson (Yorktown) in orange covered by H...

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