Cranberries—a staple on the Thanksgiving dinner table—are a perfect ingredient for cocktails this time of year. Their ruby red hue brightens up any cocktail party and the juice brings a little life to familiar cocktails. More

Sidecar, Whiskey Sour, Margarita, Daiquiri. These drinks have something fundamental in common: they're all sours. Sours are fundamental cocktails. Take a base spirit, add citrus, and polish it off with a sweetener, usually (but not always) triple sec. Tweak the balance as you will, but sours made well are always delicious. More

Sure, we found some store-bought cranberry sauce that was pretty decent in our recent taste test, but homemade is so much better, and best of all, it's absolutely blindingly simple to do. More

This recipe is the color of a Thanksgiving harvest, will providing a light and healthy accent to any overladen holiday table. Dried cranberries are both sweet and tart and add a bold flavor to braised rainbow chard. More

To me, cranberry sauce is the one side that propels a standard roast turkey into a holiday feast. It's the one dish that never graces my table, except during the holidays. And although cranberry sauce is crucial to the holiday meal, there are always leftovers once the table is cleared. More

The pressures of coming up with regular specials are very new to me. In my previous restaurant position, all of my new dishes had to meet with the approval of the owner and the director of creative development before they... More