Planning a crowd-pleasing Thanksgiving meal often starts with the bird, yet it’s rarely the talk of the night. With these 21 unique turkey recipes, that traditional role gets a much-needed upgrade.

After culinary school, I had an evening job as a line cook and a day job in a test kitchen. I never knew if I would be prepping live lobsters, decorating sugar cookies or testing Thanksgiving dinner ...

Steven Rinella has more a few opinions about turkeys. The longtime hunter and MeatEater founder prefers to eat wild ones over farm-raised birds, and he loves stalking the woods of Montana for turkeys ...