Thanksgiving made easy

SO I had my laptop set up on the counter, with your pictorial “how-to” on carving the turkey booted up, much to everyone’s amusement [latimes.com/thanksgiving]. Ha! That turkey came apart like a dream -- no problem! That was the most helpful how-to-carve piece I’ve come across.

ELINORA MANTOVANI

Cupertino

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BELATED kudos with much gratitude for your fine Thanksgiving issues [“The Essential Thanksgiving,” Nov. 16 and 23]. They included everything for novice cooks as well as excellent refreshers for more experienced cooks.

Your giblet and drippings gravies received raves at my house. I’m saving all the articles for next year so I can claim more compliments generated with the help of your issues.

KATHLEEN DEGOOD

Pasadena

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IN all my 40 years of preparing Thanksgiving dinner, reading cookbooks and magazine and newspaper articles on how to cook and prepare the meal, your staff writers in these two issues have accomplished absolutely the very best instructions and recipes anyone ever would need. Mothers across this nation could just hand these articles to their daughters or daughters-in-law and say, “Read this; you don’t need me.”

MAXINE HALL

San Diego