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Turkey Tips Step 4: Loving Your Leftovers

November 26, 2014 Chris Bernstein, Food Safety Education Staff, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA

It’s over. All of your guests have scraped their Thanksgiving dinner plates clean and have migrated from the dinner table to the couch. While you may want to immediately relax and celebrate after preparing a successful meal, it’s important that you first refrigerate any leftovers within two hours...

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Turkey Tips Step 3: Let's (Finally) Get Cooking

November 25, 2014 Chris Bernstein, Food Safety Education Staff, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA

It’s here. You’ve been planning for this since the moment you packed away your summer flip-flops – Thanksgiving Day. After safely handling and preparing your turkey, you’ve got hungry guests headed your way expecting a grand feast, so it’s time to start cooking.

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Enjoy the Holidays: Preparing Healthy and Safe Meals!

November 16, 2011 Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety and Inspection Service and
Dr. Janey Thornton, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

Special holiday series – Blog 1 of 5 As we look forward to spending the holidays with friends and family and making meals and memories together, we all want to put good food on the table and do it safely. We especially want to keep the threat of food poisoning at bay. Over the next few days, we will...

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