What to Eat on Thanksgiving When You Hate Turkey

Cooking great turkey is a science. To brine or not to brine? Should you bake, smoke or deep fry that bird? But what if you can't stand turkey? Thankfully, there are alternatives.

Food and Wine has compiled a list of non-turkey meal ideas and recipes for people who dry heave at the sight of a cooked bird. Crab legs, anyone?

For me, the turkey was more of an inconvenience growing up than a seasonal entree that I looked forward to. It was usually overcooked, under-seasoned and bone dry.

But a great jalapeno cornbread stuffing? Fresh green bean casserole? Homemade orange-cranberry sauce? Garlic mash? Now we're talking!

[via Food And Wine]