1.0 link 11133 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/thanksgiving-dinner_b_11133.html I have a fairly serious theory about Thanksgiving dinner, and it's this: don't mess with it. What most people make for Thanksgiving dinner is what their mothers made, and you stray from this at your peril. I believe that the yam was stuck into Thanksgiving dinner to satisfy mankind's atavistic urge to change things; yams give that urge a safe focus. Yams are delicious no matter what you do to them. And they're powerful: if you make them slightly differently...

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