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I usually shell chestnuts the night before Thanksgiving. A couple of nights before Thanksgiving, if I’m smart. Chestnut purée was a standard side dish at my mother’s Thanksgiving dinner, and in honor of her, I try to include it at ours. The challenge comes in dealing with the chestnuts, which are a pain to cook,…

Don’t pass the buck! Bring a prayer to the Thanksgiving table this year! Here’s a wonderful guide to prayers of many faiths and wisdom traditions.

“The basis for the new film ‘Zen Noir’ is a kind of funny concept,” writes Beliefnet’s spirituality editor Valerie Reiss in this short review. “A noir-style detective investigates a murder in a Buddhist temple. When he asks questions, he gets slippery, koan-type answers. ‘My name isn’t me,’ says one Buddhist. When pressed, the robed man…

The folks at DuPont have regrouped and are now fighting allegations from the EPA that their Teflon coating on non-stick cookware includes a chemical that is a “likely carcinogen.” The gasses Teflon produces at high heat are certainly bad for pet birds; DuPont addresses the canary-in-a-coal-mine problem here. Lately, I’ve been noticing an expensive ad…
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