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Last-minute side dishes
Try these recipes from our database to help round out your Thanksgiving spread.
Chat Leftovers: Brine, stuff, relax
Advice about roasting the turkey has left this cook confused.
Shoo-Fly falls flat in Baltimore
Spike Gjerde’s new diner offers few reasons to make the drive.
Introducing Recipe Finder 2.0
We’ve upgraded how it looks — but more importantly, how it works. Planning your meals just got easier.
Some nights, it’s taco time
The Weeknight Vegetarian subs in cauliflower for catfish in a favorite combination.
Cooking from scratch — more cheaply
We try making that Ethiopian dinner once more, this time with less-expensive ingredients.
Shuck and sip: Virginia wines and Chesapeake oysters
Some of the state’s best bottles make a perfect match with the region’s most famous food.
4 Thanksgiving wines to try — and one cider
They’ll work just as well for any other day of the week.
Food calendar: Time for cookie classes
Plus breakfast with Santa, a benefit for the Philippines, wine and spirits events, and a focus on Italian food.
How to: Apricot Pie
Seattle pie guru Kate McDermott teaches students how to make a flaky pie crust and perfect fruit filling in her intimate workshops.
Coming up: Flight Wine Bar in Penn Quarter
The 60-seat Penn Quarter retreat is poised to take off in mid-December
A Virginia wine director’s top picks
Advice from Inn at Little Washington.
Is Virginia the new Napa?
A new generation of Va. winemarkers have figured out the secret to making fine wines.
Vegetarian recipes for Thanksgiving
There is no meat, and no fuss required for these holiday dishes.
Let them go, let them go, let them go
Ten places to take or send hungry and thirsty holiday visitors
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Introducing Recipe Finder 2.0
We’ve upgraded how it looks — but more importantly, how it works. Planning your meals just got easier.
Tom Sietsema’s 40 favorites
The Washington Post restaurant critic reviews the dining rooms you should know.
Washington Post cooking class list, 2013-2014
There are more than 180 cooking classes in the Washington area to tempt you into the kitchen.
A Washington Post cookbook, at last
Out in stores and online, it features recipes that span more than 50 years of Food section coverage.
The big chill: A freezer guide
Use this guide to learn the best ways to take your food from freezer to table.
Farmers market listings
The Washington Post Food section’s 2013 listing and map of farmers markets in the area.
The whole scoop on ice cream
This might be the help you’ve been waiting for: base recipes, current standards for various frozen desserts and tips for serving and storing.
Nourish recipes
Search more than 100 healthful entrees, all clocking in at less than 500 calories, from Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.
Food Features
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Doesn’t Petworth deserve better?
First Bite: Citizen looks good, but the food and drink are lamentable.
Rialto, a bridge to Italy in Georgetown
The new spot offers sleek design and hearty, satisfying food.
Fourth RedRocks has a wow factor
The largest of the mini-chain’s four restaurants serves a good pie and well-executed meaty dishes.
The chork rules at Newton’s Noodles
Chef Dennis Friedman opens the newest Asian assembly-line kitchen in downtown D.C.
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