Our junior Senator, John Kerry, was on a tour of Afghanistan yesterday when bad weather forced the helicopter he was in to make an emergency landing in a stretch of mountains. He had to wait for three hours, while protected by troops on the ground and a F-16 overheard, until a US convoy was able to take him back to an air base. Kerry was traveling with fellow Senate Foreign Relations Committee members Joe......

One of the best things about Thanksgiving is the leftovers, no doubt. But this year, Bostonist roasted its own 19 pounder, leaving, oh, about 10 pounds of turkey left over. There are only so many gobbler sandwiches we can stuff into our maw, so we started to look for other ways to make sure we left no bird behind. Turkey pot pie seemed to fit the bill—we could put just about any leftovers in......

A fried turkey is a delicious turkey because the skin is ever-so-crispy and the flesh is meltingly moist. But Bostonist would like to issue a public-service announcement--turkey-frying is dangerous. You best know your way around propane because 'tis the season for turkey-fry fires. Be sure to take the turkey fryer outside before you start. Essentially, you will be hooking up a vat of oil to a propane tank and dipping a whole turkey into the......

For those who will be entertaining vegetarians or vegans this Turkey Day, or for anyone looking for healthier meal options, Bostonist wanted to show that a delicious and animal-friendly feast is easier to prepare than you may think. By substituting plain soymilk for regular milk, and non-dairy margarine for butter, traditional dishes such as mashed potatoes can be made easily vegan. Oh, and if you don't tell your guests you made the switch we......

Bostonist's Turkey Correspondent sent us the following photo indicating that the turkeys are moving close to home--right on his doorstep, actually. It's one thing to see a turkey on your Thanksgiving table, but quite another to see one at your front door. Maybe the turkeys are growing bolder in the face of the media glare. Various outlets have caught turkey fever, and the turkeys are lapping up the attention like a celebutante. But who wants......

Only a few days ago, Andrew Tarsy, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, backer of the "No Place for Hate" program, tried to defend the ADL's stance on the Armenian Genocide at the Watertown City Council meeting. The ADL refused to recognize the genocide, Watertown residents - including a large Armenian population - was furious, and Watertown kicked the ADL out of its borders. Then, presumably influenced by Watertown's decision to remove hate from......

Remember that hubbub a little while ago about the use of substandard concrete in the Big Dig tunnels? That Big Dig scandal was so five minutes ago. Today, it's all about the Rose Kennedy Greenway - the swath of park that will eventually sit atop the crumbling tunnel and brighten all of our lives. Specifically, it's about the memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide, which the state legislature said in 2000 should be......

Bostonist enjoys a tradition at Thanksgiving. Stuffing our meat with other meat. We’re not talking an adventure of TurDucken proportions here, merely meat stuffing made with ground beef and served with turkey. It’s common knowledge that stuffing shouldn’t actually be cooked inside (or “stuffed”) into the turkey while cooking as nasty bacteria might not have the chance to die. This doesn’t bother Bostonist one bit as our favorite stuffing on the table at Thanksgiving (we......

Bostonist knows that any "serious" Thanksgiving reveler will be leaving work at noon today and not using those extra free hours to get in a little pre-holiday afternoon cocktail or some early Christmas shopping, no, but heading straight home and starting Thanksgiving food preparations. For all those A-typers out there, Bostonist presents our top Turkey Tips: Baste often, and plentifully. Or, if all that attentiveness sounds like, frankly, a bore, try this tip from......

On any normal day, Bostonist can hardly make a box of macaroni and cheese, but on Thanksgiving, Bostonist IS an expert at making something: a nice hostess basket to take along to whichever friend's family adopts us for the year's feast. Luckily, on the third Thursday of November every year (just in time for Turkey Day), the French release their newest batch of Beaujolais Nouveau, a light and fruity wine from southern Burgundy. A......

While Bostonist hasn't actually ever tackled making a Thanksgiving dinner, we are always up for tackling the traffic home to our parents' house. Perhaps some day, we'll decide to make our own Turkey Day meal, but for now, we'll just enjoy mom Linda Lou's good home cooking. She makes some damn good sweet potatoes each year and according to her, it's quite a simple recipe that any novice cook can master. Below is the gospel......

Today at Brighton’s Big A Deli Alyssa Martin will be eating "Rescue Meat." A while back Bostonist came up with our own sandwich and we really thought our Chappaquiddick Cranberry Compote was a winner with its "secret recipe." Alas the wind is out of our sails, and we’re going to settle for the winner, the three meat treat: Capicola, Roast Beef, and Turkey. The "Celebrity Sandwich" is named for Worcester native Denis Leary’s new TV......

Growing up Beard on Bread was a staple in our parent's kitchen. Bostonist has been familliar with James Beard and his books on almost anything available; outside cooking to eating better for less money. After James Beard’s death two decades ago Julia Child helped to create the James Beard Foundation to preserve and promulgate America's culinary heritage. Gothamist told us about the non-profit troubles that the foundation has gone through in the past year. Scandal......