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    Thanksgiving: Editor's Picks

    By | Shine Food – Tue, Nov 20, 2012 11:07 AM EST

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    Whose Thanksgiving looks like a Norman Rockwell painting? Certainly not ours.
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    Despite hoopla to the contrary, Thanksgiving isn't really about the turkey. It's also not about finding a parking space at the mall, religion, whether or not you've found the love of your life, or anything else that might send you into a sweaty panic. It's just a day where we get to enjoy our family and friends (until someone, inevitably, blows it), carb-load, and somewhere in there, once the kitchen's a wreck and our top button's undone, be thankful. Here, the recipes and traditions that make this Thursday one of our favorite holidays.


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      Childhood Favorites from the Shine Supper Club
      Childhood Favorites from the Shine Supper Club

      My after-school snack was a sacred ritual. I sat on the carpet in my parents' bedroom at a low table, the television turned to "I Dream of Jeannie," and ate a peanut butter and honey sandwich cut into neat squares. I wasn't fussy about crusts. I just loved the sticky pairing of creamy peanut butter with syrupy golden sweetness drizzled from a honey bear in diagonals across the soft white bread. Nothing else--save for maybe apples and peanut butter in a pinch--could have made for as sweet an