Food and Wine’s Thanksgiving Guide

 If you are like me, I enjoy changing up my Thanksgiving menu each year.  There are some food traditions that are always present on the table, but I may change them up a bit.

I started the search for this year’s Thanksgiving menu and came across Food and Wine’s Thanksgiving Guide from 1999:

Our test kitchen always has a hard time exercising restraint at Thanksgiving. One menu is never enough to satisfy them. This year, we’ve indulged ourselves (and you too) with five distinctly different menus. There’s something for everyone: hedonists, for instance, will gravitate toward the luxurious selections, while speed demons will zoom in on the quick-and-easy choices. But most cooks will go for a mix-and-match approach, balancing a turkey with foie gras gravy and a healthy (but exquisite!) spiced angel food cake. You’ll find 25 recipes in all. Most nod to tradition–there are brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes and cranberries–but you’ll also find grilled mushrooms, king crab and sticky rice. Our test kitchen definitely went all out; we hope you will too.

There are 5 menu choices:  luxurious, make-ahead, healthy, quick and easy, and modern.  Each menu gives you a starter, a tweaked turkey dish, one side, a potato dish, a dessert and, of course, a wine.