Newsletter: This is what a food critic cooks for Thanksgiving

What are your Thanksgiving plans next week? I’m headed to Riverside for a family potluck that will probably conclude with my uncles doing tequila shots on the patio as they sing ranchera songs slightly off-key. I wouldn’t have it any other way. My...

The most important Thanksgiving dish, as everybody knows, is turkey. Because despite what the food magazines might say in any given year, neither game hen nor squab, goose nor quail is an acceptable substitute for the most majestic of holiday...

The 2020 holiday season will likely be a bittersweet one for many families, with lots of us celebrating alone, with a roommate, or with just our immediate family, rather than the collection of relatives we might normally look forward to seeing....

If you’ve been following the media recently, you may have noticed a certain lack of consensus on many things, including what an ideal Thanksgiving dinner might be. There have been instructions on how to spatchcock a turkey; how to slow-roast it;...

If you aren’t baking your own pies and instead want to pick up dessert for Thanksgiving, you’re in luck ... but the clock is ticking. Make your pie orders for pickup before the big day. Los Angeles is a city of terrific bakeries and bakers, and...