Restaurants across the country are offering their takes on the classic holiday meal both in restaurant and to go. Bringing the meal home offers a reduced-stress celebration, with a reduction in dishwashing topping the list of chores avoided, while keeping the benefits of a Norman Rockwell-esque scene.

A lot of people like eating turkey on Thanksgiving, but do you know why that is? Here's a history lesson on why turkey has become a Thanksgiving meal staple.

The fowl has long been the centerpiece of the traditional American Thanksgiving meal, but contrary to tradition, turkey may not have been part of the 1621 feast at Plymouth Colony. Descriptions of the three-day feast shared by the Pilgrims and Native Americans from the local Wampanoag tribe include wild fowl,