carrots

Adding to the long known eye health benefits of carrots is the new discovery of their potential to fight cancer.

“Fall is a very tricky season, very tricky season,” Jon Feshan muses, as we walk through the Union Square Greenmarket. At first, I’m not sure what to make of it. What hazards is he talking about? Jet-lag-inducing daylight saving time? Elections? Finicky weather? For a minute I forget he’s the executive chef at County, whose American menu is focused on the seasonal, the ephemeral—the now.

As we begin the month of November, it is finally time to shamelessly start chowing down on some delicious turkey, baked potatoes, and all those other staple foods that make this month so great. Here are 15 phenomenal recipes that we have compiled to capture the essence of November.

Every time I have baked carrots, I wonder why I don’t make them more often.