After reading Serious Eats blogger Erin Zimmer’s latchkey-kid Thanksgiving piece in the Post this morning (note the gratuitous Amanda Hess sighting in the accompanying picture), I was reminded of the fact that at least two generations have probably passed into adulthood without learning how to carve a turkey. I include myself in that knife-deprived crew.

Which is why I want to direct your attention to this terrific New York Times video in which butcher Ray Venezia of New York’s Fairway Market provides an easy step-by-step process for carving the Thanksgiving turkey. His technique is simple, and it makes for a beautiful plate of turkey meat, assuming, of course, you like that stuff to begin with.

Image by Bucklava via flickr.

As our friend Erin Zimmer reports over at Serious Eats, some lonely soul paid $7.25 on eBay for this baked diorama of animal-cracker critters getting it on. According to the original eBay listing, the New Hampshire seller wrote:

As you can see from the pictures, What we have here is a bull making sweet, sweet love to a donkey. (too bad it isn’t an elephant—it would make a great political piece!) My wife pulled this out of a bowl of animal crackers a few weeks ago. I have been storing it in an air-tight bag since! The cracker was baked like this!!! No foul play!

Last time, this auction had over 5,000 hits last time with over 200 people watching it!

I know you are laughing right now.

I know you think this is crazy.

I know you need this.

Bid now!

You wanna bet that the animal crackers were dry-humping?