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I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.

I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!

I really fell in love with Africa.

Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.

My grandfather was a great chef.

Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season.

There is no nation in the world greater, older or more honorable than the Turkish nation, nor has one been seen in the history of humanity.

The Turks were a great nation even before they adopted the Muslim religion…The religion founded by Muhammad was based on a policy of setting Arab nationalism above all other nationalisms.

I stuffed it like a turkey.

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.