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Craig Rogers is the shepherd and owner of Border Spring Farms in Patrick Springs, Virginia. Along with raising and selling “Certified Naturally Grown" and "Animal Welfare Approved" lamb and sheep to local chefs like Josh Smith and Bryan Voltaggio, he’s the occasional turkey wrangler - raising 100 to 200 heritage turkeys every year as a bit of hobby in the name of sustainable poultry.

Now, he's dropped by to talk turkey - heritage, that is - and why you should save the frozen bird for turkey bowling.

Five Reasons to Enjoy a Heritage Turkey this Thanksgiving: Craig Rogers
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Excerpt from today's e-mail exchange with Stacia Deshishku, CNN's White House Sr. Supervising Producer: "I am obsessed with the cornbread v. sausage v. oyster stuffing debates!"

You and me both, sister. As so many Americans did, I grew up on Stove Top Stuffing. Then, as probably the vast majority, uh, didn't, because I fancied the flavors so much, I took to making myself little after-school snacks of toasted bread stirred with margarine, a splash of instant bouillon and a sprinkle of Bell's Poultry Seasoning. I fixated on those flavors the 364 non-Thanksgiving days of the year. (There are reasons I've chosen the career path that I have.)

This all goes to say that until I started celebrating Thanksgiving with the families of college pals (Kentucky was a long, expensive schlep for a broke art student in Baltimore), I had no idea that stuffing - or "dressing" if you roll that way - had any sort of regional variations. Who knew you could branch beyond bread, sage, thyme and the usual seasoning suspects and add oysters, andouille sausage, chestnuts, rice, giblets, raisins, White Castle Slyders or even peanuts? For that matter, cornbread was suddenly a viable swap for stale white bread and one could dally with pumpernickel if the mood were right.

Hey – it's a free country, after all. (Unless you're sticking dried cherries in there. That's just nasty.)

Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe.

• The Princeton Committee on Palestine turns Israeli hummus into a political statement. - Student Free Press Association

• MacGyver the sous vide technique at home: no crazy machines required. - Q and Abe

• No Thanksgiving spread is complete without White Castle stuffing. - NY Daily News

• The best airport eats for the weary holiday traveler. - Food & Wine

• Sometimes egregious product placement on soap operas is newsworthy.– YouTube

Food in the Field gives a sneak peek into what CNN's team is eating, and the food culture they encounter as they travel the globe. Today's photo contributor Suzanne Malveaux covers the White House and is the primary substitute anchor for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.

Reason seventy beeeellliiooon why you should be following The 1600 Report White House blog: Suzanne Malveaux filed this photograph of a midnight snack aboard the Presidential aircraft.
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While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday and the most delicious finds on TV.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, November 23 is National Cranberry Day. Often thought of as indispensable to the traditional holiday menu, cranberry sauce can be slathered on turkey, stuffing or whatever else your stomach desires.

About 95 percent of the cranberry crop is used for products such as juice drinks and dried cranberries – plain and raw cranberries may be too bitter for the average consumer.

As for us, we’ll take ours in the form of a Cape Codder, thank you very much.

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You can haul a Lady Baltimore cake through BWI airport or a Boston cream pie home via Logan. Just expect a little extra TLC from the TSA, and don't forget to jam that jelly into luggage you'll be checking.

Thousands of jet-setting epicures are on the go for the biggest food holiday of the year - and airport security screening is at an all-time high. Transportation Security Administration spokesperson Jonella J. Culmer weighed in on which edibles can be carried onboard, and which are best transported in your belly or your checked bags.

Culmer told us via e-mail, that unless these items are purchased from a vendor after the security checkpoint, these items may not be carried onto the plane:
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Food & Wine's wine editor Ray Isle joins our Terroir pals in their rail against the "marketing ploy" of Beaujolais Nouveau and suggests some Thanksgiving-friendly wines that'll leave your wallet feeling stuffed.

2008 Smoking Loon Syrah, California ($8.00)
2008 Substance Syrah, Washington's Columbia Valley ($15.00)
2009 Georges DuBoeuf Beaujolais Villages, France ($10.00)
2009 Rodney Strong Chardonnay, California's Sonoma County ($13.00)
2009 Yalumba Viognier, Australia ($11.00)

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