Good morning. Today, we’ve got a selection of recipes for your Thanksgiving table. We’re also covering Trump’s appointments, the floods in Spain and the box office.

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The new classics

	By Emily Weinstein I’m the editor in chief of New York Times Cooking and Food.

The menus are being planned, grocery lists made, details finalized — it’s nearly go time for Thanksgiving, a time for epic feasting and the one day of the year on which even the most reluctant home cooks wander into the kitchen. Are you ready?

I’m here to help. We have Thanksgiving recipes for just about every dish you could think of, but today I’m sharing recipes that have become the new classics of the genre: holiday dishes from Cooking that are simple but imbued with intelligence and spark, recipes that are beloved by our readers and indisputably delicious.

The menu

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Buttermilk-Brined Roast Turkey

Samin Nosrat’s roast turkey is among the most popular and best we’ve ever published, a supersize riff on her justly famous buttermilk-brined roast chicken recipe. Her method calls for three ingredients and produces a turkey with golden brown skin and juicy meat. She did a version for turkey breast, too.

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Cheesy Hasselback Potato Gratin

This dish is a Thanksgiving powerhouse with a key innovation: Kenji López-Alt, who wrote the recipe, stands the potato slices up vertically, rather than laying them flat, for a singular presentation that also gives you crisp potato edges in every bite.

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Vegetarian Mushroom Wellington

A project to be sure, but this dish is a stunner and one of the finest meatless centerpieces you could possibly make for the holiday.

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Green Beans With Ginger and Garlic

There are a few dishes you need on the table to cut through the tan symphony that is the traditional Thanksgiving meal. Cranberry sauce, yes, but a fresh vegetable, too — something green that offers a satisfying crunch or snap to contrast with all those soft, sweet or creamy dishes.

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Cranberry Curd Tart

Jewel-toned and chic, this is a statement dessert — something eye-catching and not too sweet for the end of the meal. (Another one of my favorites in this bright realm: our mango pie.)

And new classics in the making

The recipes above are longstanding treasures of the Cooking catalog, but there are up-and-comers to consider when you’re drawing up your menu:

Eric Kim’s new dry-brined roast turkey with chiles, which zings with flavor; saag paneer lasagna (a.k.a. “lasaagna”), the classic but with a saag paneer-inspired filling; creamy double-garlic mashed potatoes, for a supremely garlicky side; caramelized onion, cranberry and rosemary tahchin, which infuses the Persian rice dish with Thanksgiving flavors; and for dessert, a coconut caramel tart and cranberry lemon bars.

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One of the things that is unique about K-pop is that the fan culture is so specific and so enormous. Can you tell me a little bit about that relationship? How authentic did you feel you could be? How authentic did you want to be?

We were trained to always present ourselves in the most perfect, perfect way. And so even when we were interacting with fans online, it was when I was ready to give perfect answers and give them what they wanted — and making sure that I’m a perfect girl for everyone. That was the culture. And that’s why leading into this album, it was more of a personal want and need to be able to write an album like an album that I grew up with, music that I could relate to. In order for that, I’m sure artists had to be vulnerable, but we hadn’t trained to talk about our emotions and feelings and experiences.

When you had to sit down with yourself and write this album, what was that like to have to dig deep?

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The themes are heartache, lost love, anger sometimes — the range of human emotions.

Yeah, romance. But even that — it’s scary for me. I could see the faces of the producers and songwriters, they were like, So interesting, Rosie! Why are you so nervous about this? And I’m like, You guys, you don’t know.”

Read more of the interview here.

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