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Workers sort through sweet potatoes Friday at Vick Family Farms in Wilson, N.C. The humble sweet potato staple of Thanksgiving dinners and Southern cooking for generations has recently gone cosmopolitan, thanks to a booming appetite for the vegetables in Europe, where they were all but unknown as recently as 10 years ago.

Americans see 50 percent increase in cost of Thanksgiving dinner

By James Maahs | November 22, 2010

It might be a small Thanksgiving for more families this year. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation the average price for Thanksgiving dinner has seen a 50 percent increase since 1987. Assistant economics professor Jeremy Groves, explained...

Surviving Black Friday

Surviving Black Friday

By Eric Titus | November 22, 2010

As we near the end of our school year, we approach Thanksgiving, when students go home, meet with family and loved ones, and eat excessive amounts of food. It is a great holiday, and is usually followed up by the monstrous sale event dubbed "Black Friday,"...

What not to do while on Thanksgiving break

What not to do while on Thanksgiving break

By Portia Kerr-Newman | November 22, 2010

Thanksgiving, minus all the Pilgrim stuff, is about family tradition, spending time with your loved ones, eating some good food and, of course, football. Students get a few days to relax and take a break from school. Some take full advantage of the perks...

What are you really doing when home for break?

By Phil Case | November 21, 2010

Thanksgiving is just a few days away and while some professors have taken it upon themselves to skew the holiday with petty, last-minute homework assignments, most of us will use our time to catch up on our favorite television shows, get a head start...

In Focus: What is the best/worst thing about Thanksgiving?

In Focus: What is the best/worst thing about Thanksgiving?

Aaron Brooks, columnist: By far the best thing about Thanksgiving is the food. I have an apartment so I can cook good meals, but ugh, November has been busy. Most of my meals this month have come from Subway, Big Rapp Daddy's and Taco Bell. Needless to...

You’re cracking me up

I'm LOVING all the Turkey-Day disaster stories you're postingfor me. They're hilarious - and you're making me feel a little bitbetter (just a wee bit) about holiday cooking. I mean, everyone flubs up now and then. Then, we can all laughabout it later!...

Turkey-day disasters

Hey, why don't they tell you to look in BOTH ends of the frozenturkey before you cook it (or do they, and I just ignoredit???!!!)? Ha! Because I nearly cooked a plastic bag full of giblets(eeeuuuwwwww!!!) the last time I attempted to cook a turkey for...