I've been fighting a rear-guard action all month. I think it was my second-biggest month of the year, mileage-wise. 28 days of running and only 2 days off. Last week I ran 50 miles. But where I was on the 621 Plan for the previous three months,...

I don't think my mom ever made turkey gumbo and neither did I. It's not that we weren't a gumbo family. We put the "um" in gumbo. We didn't have gumbo on the day of Thanksgiving because we had gumbo on Thanksgiving. There was always a shrimp or...

It's the question that has bedeviled Thanksgiving cooks for generations: Should you put marshmallows on the sweet potatoes? For years, I have been about as ambivalent about marshmallows as the Ghostbusters. But that was before I found this recipe in...

The electric smoker -- it's the only way to go for Thanksgiving turkey. For starters, let's concede that turkey can only be so good. That's why you make gravy or cranberry sauce, or both. The only qualm I had about my bird was that it was not ready...

Vo2Max and I made our brine last night (apple cider, brown sugar, kosher salt, ginger, garlic, oranges, bay leaves, and cloves) and we submerged our thawed bird this morning for a 24-hour bath. It's going to be just the three of us tomorrow, so I'm...