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November 02, 2010

Thanksgiving 2010: What the Food Magazines Are Recommending

A Bitten Word Round-Up of 175 Recipes from 10 Leading Food Magazines

Thanksgiving 2010 mag covers

As we said yesterday, we've got tons of great Thanksgiving dishes to share with you. But before we get to our Thanksgiving parade of recipes, we wanted to post our annual round-up of all the T-Day recipes from all the food magazines we receive.

Last year, we said that if we were to assign a trend to the 2009 Thanksgiving issues, it would be about simplicity.  

This year, that trend seems even more extreme. This year's food mags are all trumpeting "simple," "easy," "foolproof," "no-time," "Thanksgiving 101" recipes.

Still, we did find a handful of really innovative dishes -- notably, in Food & Wine's "East by Northeast" Thanksgiving spread, which features an Asian-American meal that incorporates Eastern flavors and traditional Thanksgiving dishes. We also lusted after Martha Stewart Living's "Land of Plenty" feature, which showcased a farm-to-table Thanksgiving dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns. It's the Thanksgiving we most wanted to attend (maybe because it started off with Hudson Baby Bourbon Whiskey?).

We noticed a few micro-trends this year, too. Despite the beautiful slices of pie that adorn the cover of Martha Stewart Living, it's cakes that seem really popular this year. And especially pumpkin layer cakes -- three different magazines feature one this year.

Other ingredients that are big this year? Pomegranates are everywhere. As is fennel. Both of those are nice ways to add a new flavor into standard Thanksgiving dishes.

What's out? Corn, believe it or not. Other than cornbread stuffings and a couple of soups from Saveur, there's only one dish in all these food magazines that includes corn (Food & Wine's Creamed Haricot Vert and Corn Casserole).

Which ingredients stood out the most this year? Using Wordle.net, we created a couple of interesting word clouds that display the different ingredients in all these recipes according to how often they appear.

Here's a word cloud showing every prominent ingredient:

Thanksgiving 2010 word cloud 2
And here's one where we omitted all the usual suspects (turkey, stuffing, etc.):

Thanksgiving 2010 word cloud 1
Anyway, onto the master index!

Here it is: 175 recipes from 10 of this year's food magazines. If something is not linked, it means it's not available online (at least, not as we're writing this). That doesn't mean it's not worth your time. Go to the bookstore, peruse the issues and buy yourself some Thanksgiving literature!

Tell us in the comments what you think sounds good, what sounds bad and what you can't wait to make!

 

STARTERS

 

SOUPS

 

SALADS 

 

TURKEY

 

STUFFINGS and DRESSINGS

 

SIDES (EXCLUDING POTATOES)

POTATOES


BREADS

 

GRAVY

 

CRANBERRY SAUCES AND CHUTNEYS

 

DESSERTS

 

Posted at 12:03 PM in Bon Appétit, Cook's Country, Cook's Illustrated, Everyday Food, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, Food Network Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Saveur, Southern Living, The Leftovers |

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