N.C. State University food safety expert Benjamin Chapman has put together a series of  videos on how to cook a safe Thanksgiving feast. Here are the links by topic: 

Seems the good folks at the health department are close readers of our monthly Specialty of the House column. Our most recent recipe, for the dense, rich Bailey's chocolate pie from Raleigh's Glenwood Grill, resulted in a call to Chef John Wright from the food safety team. They were worried about the egg (it's added to a hot mixture).

For the record, Chef Wright uses pasteurized eggs at the restaurant; we did, too, in testing it and recommended that in a note with the recipe. 

By the way, the pie is really really good.

On the front page today, we had a story about the state's efforts to police the new regulations about banning smoking in most restaurants and bars. And on the local front, we had a followup about the kids who fell ill after a dinner at the YMCA conference.