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Holiday Food
November 4, 2012

Complete Thanksgiving Menus From Chefs Daniel Humm, and Larry and Marc Forgione

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Take your turkey with foie-gras-and-black-truffle stuffing, or with pan gravy and mashed sweet potatoes? Here, chefs Daniel Humm (Eleven Madison Park, NoMad) and father and son Larry and Marc Forgione have whipped up two very different Thanksgiving menus: Humm shares a cutting-edge, Michelin-quality dinner, while the Forgiones serve up a traditional family-style feast.

Amid all the hyperventilating over Humm’s new culinary hotspot, NoMad, in the eponymous Flatiron hotel, nothing has inspired more huzzahs than Humm’s wood-oven-roasted chicken stuffed with foie gras and truffles, a sinful concoction Humm first introduced at his three-Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park. That dish, adapted here for a Thanksgiving turkey, is at the center of Humm’s upscale French contemporary menu, featuring seasonal Greenmarket ingredients. To prepare the bird, Humm stuffs the foie-gras-and-truffle mixture under its skin, a technique that makes the skin extra rich, crispy, and brown, and bastes the meat so it’s especially moist, with an earthy, decadent flavor. (Humm also brines the bird beforehand for still more flavor and juiciness.) Humm begins his meal with a creamy parsnip-and-pear soup with a touch of celery root, topped with a swirl of vanilla oil. “Soup is like a hug; it makes guests feel comfortable,” he says. “And the vanilla oil adds a spicy holiday taste.” Don’t be fooled by the apparent simplicity of his raw-cranberry-chutney and braised-red-cabbage-with-apple side dishes; they are studies in uncomplicated elegance. Humm’s butternut-squash steaks with black pepper give a more finished feeling to that oft-mashed dish, and his sweet-potato cake with caramelized apples transforms the savory tuber into an imaginative, yet not too unfamiliar, dessert. “Sweet potatoes and apples scream holiday—earthy and rich,” Humm says. “It’s kind of like a pie, but a little more creative.”

At his pioneering manhattan restaurant An American Place, Larry Forgione established himself as a visionary locavore and one of the forefathers of American cuisine. His son Marc Forgione is the chef and co-owner of the eponymous Tribeca restaurant, and winner of Food Network’s Next Iron Chef, season three (his crowning feat was an American Thanksgiving without the turkey; he did venison). Here, the father-son pair teamed up to create, appropriately enough, a traditional family Thanksgiving dinner. “Our ideas were so similar,” says Larry. “Marc and I share the same culinary values, although he has incorporated influences from other cuisines.” “I didn’t know how much I learned from my father,” says Marc, “until I stopped working with him.” To kick off their meal, Larry suggested a Native American-inspired succotash soup with beans and corn, while Marc had in mind a spicy clam chowder, so they compromised and added clams to the succotash, giving it a shot of brininess. At his own Thanksgiving dinner, Larry likes to roast a Heritage Bourbon Red turkey with the herbed butter stuffed under the skin. “If you put the butter on the outside of the bird, it runs off as it melts,” he says, “but under the skin it bastes the meat as it cooks.” To make his stuffing, Marc starts with standard bread croutons, but then “I like to up the ante by adding chestnuts and sausage,” he says. The Forgiones’ vegetable dishes also get a twist—turnips receive a honey glaze, Brussels sprouts an infusion of country ham, and sweet potatoes a hit of maple syrup. Since neither man is keen on cranberries with his turkey, they decided to use that all but mandatory ingredient to make a colorful, sweet-and-sour pecan pie instead. Of course, “you also have to have pumpkin on Thanksgiving,” Larry says. His solution: pumpkin-pie ice cream, which pairs perfectly with the actual pie.

Click through the slideshow to see their creations and get the recipes.

Photographs by Kenji Toma
Food Styling by Alison Attenborough
All recipes serve 8.

Related: The 2012 Thanksgiving Guide

*This article originally appeared in the November 12, 2012 issue of New York Magazine.

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Appetizer: Parsnip-and-Pear Soup With Almond-Vanilla Oil 
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Appetizer: Parsnip-and-Pear Soup With Almond-Vanilla Oil

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Entrée: Whole Roasted Turkey With Foie-Gras-and-Black-Truffle Stuffing 
(Start two days ahead to brine the turkey and prepare the stuffing.) 
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(Start two days ahead to brine the turkey and prepare the stuffing.) 
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Entrée: Whole Roasted Turkey With Foie-Gras-and-Black-Truffle Stuffing

(Start two days ahead to brine the turkey and prepare the stuffing.)

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Entrée: Whole Roasted Turkey With Foie-Gras-and-Black-Truffle Stuffing

(Start two days ahead to brine the turkey and prepare the stuffing.)

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Side: Raw-Cranberry Chutney 
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Side: Raw-Cranberry Chutney

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Side: Braised Red Cabbage With Apples 
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Side: Braised Red Cabbage With Apples

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Side: Butternut-Squash Steaks With Black Pepper 
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Side: Butternut-Squash Steaks With Black Pepper

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Dessert: Sweet-Potato Cake With Caramelized Apples 
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Dessert: Sweet-Potato Cake With Caramelized Apples

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Appetizer: Succotash Soup With Clams 
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Appetizer: Succotash Soup With Clams

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Entrée: Roast Heritage Turkey and Pan Gravy 
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Entrée: Roast Heritage Turkey and Pan Gravy

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Side: Chestnut-and-Sausage Stuffing 
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Side: Chestnut-and-Sausage Stuffing

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Side: Brussels Sprouts With Country Ham 
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Side: Brussels Sprouts With Country Ham

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Side: Honey-Glazed Turnips 
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Side: Honey-Glazed Turnips

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Side: Maple-Whipped Sweet Potatoes 
  
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Side: Maple-Whipped Sweet Potatoes

 

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Dessert: Cranberry-Pecan Pie and Pumpkin-Pie Ice Cream 
  
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Dessert: Cranberry-Pecan Pie and Pumpkin-Pie Ice Cream

 

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