Magnificent Thanksgiving Menus

Pick a dish from each category and you've got the ultimate Thanksgiving day menu consisting of classic recipes with delicious tweaks.

Perfect Thanksgiving Pies

Everyone saves room for pie, and it's usually the same pie every year, so we took the classics and jazzed them up without reimagining them in any way that would alarm traditionalists at the table.

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5 Thanksgiving Pie Recipes

"Shouldn't say this, but it's better than Aunt Mae's."

Touched with maple and a little bourbon, our pecan pie will wow the pecanophiles. Unless, of course, they're the pumpkin-or-nothing types. Either way, bake a ringer, too: maybe something completely different. Quince, anyone?