Thanksgiving

What Do Chefs Eat at Work? From Pig-Head Pozole to Cheese Steaks, Notes on Restaurant Staff Meals

This week's review is of Cocina Economica Mexico on the Upper West Side, where Pedro Hernandez Perez was put in charge of a Mexican kitchen after winning over David Bank and the Land Thai team with the family meals he prepared, inspired by his hometown of Puebla. To celebrate good family meals (the ... More >>

Seeds of Resiliency

La Pollera Colorada's Colombian Roast Chicken: A Feast Too Large For Date Night

[See More Taste Tests: Fried Green Tomatoes vs. Fried Okra: The Showdown | Colombian Aguardiente: A Drink That May Make You Punch Someone in the Face] Pivoting, twirling, dancing in the heat, skins glistening and browning, crisping and cracking. There's nothing quite like the sight of a dozen rotis ... More >>

TV Sucks! 43 Reasons Why I Can't Watch Anymore!

43 reasons to hide the remote

How's This For A Happy Face?

Whenever I see a TV camera approaching, my face lights up like a Halloween pumpkin and all the hanging skin inflates like a Thanksgiving Day float based on a long-running animated character. I basically become a holiday parade float of a giant, gay, papier-mâché suckerfish.

Where Am I Eating?

You might have stuffed yourself silly with food and entertainment over the Thanksgiving holiday, but we've saved some fun here for you at Fork in the Road. Yep, it's time to play our weekly guessing game, Where Am I Eating? As always, take a look at the picture below, then name the restaurant that ... More >>

Six Things The Lady Gaga Thanksgiving Special Could Have Used

Last night ABC aired A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, a 90-minute special that was something of a throwback to the "celebrities celebrate major holidays for the benefit of their audience" shows of yore. Gaga conceptualized and directed the show, which was a testament to her ego and creativity: She sang wit ... More >>

Happy Hour at Subway Inn

If spending time with family on Thanksgiving doesn't drive you to drink, then a visit to a department store on Black Friday surely will.

Presented For Your Thanksgiving Enjoyment: A Cornucopia Of Songs With "Pie" In The Title

Today is Thanksgiving here in the States, and in addition to getting irritated by Nickelback's existence, lots of Americans will probably celebrate by eating pie. The word "pie" is a bit more prevalent in the lyrics of non-"Weird Al" Yankovic-crafted popular music than one might a dessert to be, but ... More >>

The Real Thanksgiving: The 10 Best Native American Harvest Dishes

In 1620, a group of religious extremists set sail from Plymouth, England, on a ship called the Mayflower. The pilgrims basically wanted to set up a theocracy in the New World, and found a couple of British investors to foot the bill. So off they went, hoping that their slice of paradise -- pretty mu ... More >>

It's Your Last Day to Nominate Candidates for the Village Voice Web Awards

On Friday we announced the judges for the upcoming 2011 Village Voice Web Awards (December 7! Save the date!). Today -- TODAY -- is your last chance to nominate candidates for awards. Nominate here! You know you need something to break up all that time spent slugging coffee and googling America's fi ... More >>

ETSY: THE MUSICAL

A Prairie Home Companion comes to the big city

Russian Mars Probe Will Probably be the Latest Thing to Crash into Earth

via Wikipedia​In September, NASA's UARS satellite plummeted back to Earth, scattering debris over the Pacific Ocean. In October, Germany's ROSAT orbiting telescope reentered our atmosphere and crashed somewhere in Southeast Asia. Following this pattern of space crap falling back to Earth comes ... More >>

FOREIGNER

Hollywood definitely knows something we don't

Macy's to Open at Midnight on Black Friday

​What will you do on Thanksgiving? Eat yourself into oblivion, of course, but then what? Now you have the option to leave Thanksgiving dinner and waddle directly to Macy's, which will open at midnight on the sacred holiday of Black Friday. Read it and weep for our lost dignity as a nation:

Under Construction Still Needs Some Work

Norman Rockwell gets the Charles Mee-Anne Bogart treatment

Paul McCartney Sings About Scrambled Eggs and Tofu Wings with Jimmy Fallon

It's the Friday two weeks before Christmas and two weeks after Thanksgiving (and the day after the end of Hanukkah). You're probably fasting before the onslaught of holiday parties begins or still trying to work off a fortnight of turkey sandwiches and leftover pumpkin pie. In any case, we figure ... More >>

The Union Square Holiday Market's Edible Delights

Hansel and Gretel Would Approve​ Now that Thanksgiving is officially over, it's time to start holiday shopping, and what better place for gifts than at the Union Square Holiday Market. Yes, it's just as crowded as Wal-Mart come five a.m. on Black Friday, but hey, at least the snacking options ... More >>

Obama's Busted Lip, Willie Nelson's Weed Arrest & More of What You Missed While in a Food Coma

​Everyone knows Thanksgiving is a two-day holiday. The first is for eating and drinking and fighting with your family. (Maybe you go to the movies at night, that's okay too.) The second is for eating and drinking more, preferably leftovers with people you like, friends or the favorite family m ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Rob ... More >>

Jimmy McMillan, "Rent Is Too Damn High" Guy, Has Not One But Two Signature Thanksgiving Dinners

​Former highly unlikely New York gubernatorial candidate and "Rent Is Too Damn High" party leader/handlebar mustache-haver Jimmy McMillan has generously offered up not one but two possible Thanksgiving dinner plans to WNYC. You may choose between "Middle Class" and "Po Folk" menus.

Presidential Pardoned Turkeys Screwed Out of Trip to Disneyland

​Today President Obama did his annual Thanksgiving thing in the Rose Garden, reflecting on our grand holiday traditions and wishing Americans a happy turkey-day. And, most importantly, pardoning some turkeys.

Subway to Send More 'Undercover Bosses' to Stores; Carnival Cruise Line Denies Serving Spam

​A Subway executive who recently appeared on the CBS show Undercover Boss has called for more upper management to go into stores to see how they work. [Nation's Restaurant News] City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is calling out Mayor Bloomberg for a policy that forces people who receive foo ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Best Coffee, Pumpkin Pie

This week in food blogs... Eater asked, "Are New York's dive bars really in danger?" Most signs point to yes. Meanwhile, Grub Street got a glimpse of a Coney Island gone corporate: Is that Ruby's replaced by Ruby Tuesday? Feast listed its best coffee programs: Eleven Madison Park, Frankies 457, a ... More >>

Kittichai's Ty Bellingham, Part II: First Thanksgiving, Ratatouille & Cooking in a Batman Costume

Ty Bellingham​Yesterday, we talked to Ty Bellingham, the new chef at Kittichai, who made the move from Sydney, Australia with his family to bring his Thai food expertise to New York City. Today, he reveals what's in his fridge, a few of his hopes and dreams, and his biggest culture shocks so f ... More >>

THANKSGIVING BLUES

Memories of a bitter 2000

King Kong, The City, and Thanksgiving

by James H. Burns This week marks the anniversary of when many New Yorkers were first introduced to King Kong, and the picture's heady blend of romance, adventure, and a giant gorilla. For over ten years, beginning in the early 1970s, King Kong was shown by Channel 9 (the former WOR-TV), on Than ... More >>

Adam Sandler's Classic SNL Turkey Day Carol... And, Why Not?

Seventeen years later and it's still funny -- especially when Kevin Nealon joins in for the duet. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving! [via Eat Me Daily]

*BOB* TIMES TWO

There's a reason she's world-famous

RED CARPET REUNION

Pass the cranberries and the fiddle

Nightmares Before Thanksgiving: Vodka-Infused Turkey

​Paul Hurley, owner of O'Casey's Tavern on East 41st Street, has introduced in time for Thanksgiving an alcoholic turkey. The turkey is not fortified, as we immediately presumed, with Wild Turkey bourbon -- which would strike us as an appropriate blend, both poetically and palate-wise -- nor ... More >>

Last Year, 14.6 Percent of American Families Went Hungry

Just in time for Thanksgiving comes a report from the Agriculture Department stating that the percentage of families who "had difficulty providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources" rose from 11.1 percent in 2007 to 14.6 percent in 2008.

Talking Turkey: This Year, Pick Your Own

r_gnuce/flickr​Six days into November and turkey tips are already clogging the collective consciousness. Here's one from Feather Down Farms: For the ultimate locavore experience, spend an afternoon upstate and pick out your own live bird. The Stony Creek Farm location of Feather Down in Delaw ... More >>

HERBIVOROUS HOLIDAYS

Skip the carcass, and stuff yourself instead

DEAD PREZ RIDE

Before you pig out, feed the brain

Rockie Weekly Horoscope November 17-23

New Orleans Is Not Dying

Even destroyed, we've got 10 times the charm of your Scottsdale

Bummer, Dude--The National Guard's Here

Troops bust college kids' kegger in New Orleans

'Isn't This a Time! A Tribute to Harold Leventhal'

Liquid Thanksgiving

Sampling Turkey and Stuffing Flavored Soda

The numbers have names: Facing the truth about this war

Radar Love

The Best Gadgets for Catching Speeding Motorists

The Bodies Come Home

The president is grieved by U.S. casualties. He also worries they'll cost him votes.

Music

R Bar Is A-OK

Knock back a few in Brooklyn's backwoods

People in Glass Houses

Holiday Windows in a Sad Season

Life on the Outside

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

To Everything There Is a Season

Soul Remains

Now Is Their Hour