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For cultured meat—which has gone by many names including lab-grown meat, clean meat, or slaughter-free meat—the question has not been “if” but “when.” The development of growing animal cells into edible meat has continued, only the timeline was uncertain. Back in 2016, an Israeli company called SuperMeat even took a guess, suggesting their lab-grown chicken would be available by July 2021. Turns out they weren’t far off, but they also weren’t the first ones to get there. This weekend, Eat Just—which until recently was best known for its plant-based Just Egg—will become the first company in the world to have...

TURDUCKEN is a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed into a de-boned turkey. The word turducken is a portmanteau of turkey, duck, and chicken or hen. The thoracic cavity of the chicken/game hen and the rest of the gaps are stuffed, sometimes with a highly seasoned breadcrumb mixture or sausage meat, although some versions have a different stuffing for each bird. The result is a fairly solid layered poultry dish, suitable for cooking by braising, roasting, grilling, or barbecuing.

A Dallas man will likely be sentenced today, one day after a jury convicted him of sprinkling feces on pastries at a grocery store. Prosecutors charged 49-year-old Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh with two felony counts of tampering with consumer products. During the trial, the jury saw store surveillance videotapes of the man tainting the food. Customers had complained the fresh-baked items smelled and tasted like manure. Nahidmobarekeh could get anywhere from 10 years probation to two to 20 years in prison.

Searching the back files over at Simple Truth Inc. during a recent down moment, we discovered that not every tradition endures. That genetically modified turkey that John Madden always rolled out on the Thanksgiving Day football telecasts, for example: Gone. And, for that matter, so goes Madden. Now sentenced to life on Monday nights, more than two decades of NFL Sunday work officially behind him, the big man this week will spend his first Thanksgiving at home in forever. Madden jokes that he won't know where to sit. He will, however, know what to watch, because even the great Madden...