Let the parties begin

Time is running out. You need to step up to the dinner plate. We'll help as the festive season begins with the first of what often are many holiday meals between now and the new year.

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Wisconsin is the nation's top producer of the cheery Thanksgiving staple.

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The easiest way to add tons of flavor to your Thanksgiving turkey is to get under its skin.

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Green-bean salad a vegetarian hit

A reader writes It's my first meatless dinner party, but first, I have got to tell you how I found out how vegetables rock!

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A house divided about lamb?

Here's the question that was consuming Taste staff writer Judith Bell in 1972: "What to do if you have a house divided about lamb?"

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Sounds luscious, but gird yourself

Golden Valley native Cindy Pawlcyn reminisced about her mother's bread stuffing recipe, that calls for two loaves of white bread and chopped vegetables combined with, gulp, 1 1/2 to 2 pounds of butter.

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