Love those leftovers
By now, plans have been made for how our Thanksgivings will unfold. Just before writing this, I listened to a call-in program on MPB radio as listeners shared how they’re adapting this year.
Area residents alter Thanksgiving plans due to COVID-19 concerns
Lisa Long has never cooked a Thanksgiving turkey before, but she will this year.
Her family gathers in a group of about 15 most years, usually at her house in Starkville, and everyone brings a dish. She usually makes a side dish or a dessert while someone else handles the turkey, she said, but this year the group is limited to just her household — her, her husband and their 10-year-old daughter — due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Long-term care facilities ‘making best’ of Thanksgiving
Even as she talks about plans for this year’s Thanksgiving preparations, there’s a wistful tone in Judy Otts’ voice.
On Thursday, the 47 residents of Carrington Nursing Center in Starkville will still enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving meal and some will have visits from relatives. The common areas will still be decorated for the holiday.
Area residents, groups feed those in need during Thanksgiving week
For five years, Dustin Nichols cooked meals on Thanksgiving Day and fed whoever came looking for food from his North Columbus home.
This year, the Alabama native is hoping for a broader reach.
Ask Rufus: The First Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving is a holiday filled with history, tradition and food.
Tips for sweets — and safety — this Thanksgiving
Like many of you, our family plans to scale back this Thanksgiving — fewer people, much simpler menu, and aiming to do whatever we do outside, assuming Mother Nature is kind.
Columbus volunteers ask for donations to cook, deliver Thanksgiving meals to those in need
When Sherry Ellis left Georgia to return to her hometown of Columbus two years ago, she threw herself into community service.
“I grew up in Columbus and always was involved in community service,” Elllis said. “I always had a heart for it. So when I came back home, I wanted to do anything I could for the community.”
Holiday giving during COVID-19: Columbus volunteers plan Thanksgiving turkey drive-through
For the past 25 years, Annie Barry has spent most of her Thanksgiving Day giving.
Starting out in her own kitchen in 1994, Barry and her friends cooked and delivered hot meals to seniors and residents with disabilities in Lowndes County every year. What began as a small operation has expanded to serving thousands of county residents in need each year over more than two decades.
Some area restaurants remain open for Thanksgiving
For the last several days, chef Beth Rogers has been preparing a Thanksgiving meal — for more than 100 people.
Day after: Save some of that turkey to make ‘gobblers’ and other good things to eat
Last Friday, while in a conversation about the size of the necessary bird to buy, an acquaintance said to me, “If you don’t have leftovers for sandwiches, you really haven’t had Thanksgiving turkey.”
Thanksgiving air-travel rush gets off to a good start
Thanksgiving travelers got help from favorable weather in most of the U.S. Tuesday, but flight delays piled up at airports around the country by day’s end.
SOCSD invites parents to Thanksgiving: More than 1,800 adult guests expected to eat with students today
Before students were served their lunches on Tuesday, the Henderson Ward Stewart cafeteria staff was still busy putting the final touches on today’s menu.
The 12-person team stacked trays of pecan pies, hot dinner rolls, gravy and cranberry sauce for the busiest meal of the year.
Want a crisp and moist turkey with mahogany skin? No sweat
Unless you have access to multiple ovens, only a very large turkey will do when you’ve got a crowd coming to dinner.
KitchenWise: Serve grape and cranberry crisp at Thanksgiving
For many of us, the menu for Thanksgiving is etched in stone.
Trotter shooting suspect arrested
A suspect in the Thanksgiving shooting outside the Trotter Convention Center downtown is in custody.
Thankful
Though it may feel as if Christmas has burst out of the starting blocks, this Thanksgiving weekend still serves as a respite.
Man killed in Thanksgiving shooting outside Trotter
Police are still looking for a suspect in an early Thursday morning fatal shooting outside the Trotter Convention Center in downtown Columbus.
Security tight for Thanksgiving parade in terror-wary NYC
Sand-filled sanitation trucks and police sharpshooters will mix with glittering floats and giant balloons at a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that comes in a year of terrible mass shootings and not even a month after a deadly truck attack in lower Manhattan.
Anne’s Kitchen: Love your leftovers
Ah, Thanksgiving. The frenzy of the grocery store, getting the turkey thawed in time, waking early to get it in the oven, searching for oven space for that last casserole — and don’t forget to heat the rolls!
Airlines see Thanksgiving travel rising 3 percent
Get ready for bigger airport crowds over Thanksgiving this year.