By GINA KIM, Sacramento Bee

Once the Thanksgiving turkey has gone from drumsticks to a pile of sticks, the bone of contention begins -- toss the carcass or make something of it?

The answer may have been easy when IPOs came often and SUVs were the car of choice. But in these more frugal times, consider putting the remains of the day into the stockpot.

The lick-on label was unmistakable. Paul Campfield was reading his mother's name and the address of his childhood home in San Lorenzo, Calif.

And it meant the old records he picked up for $2 at a Sutter Creek antique shop had once belonged to her, although she died in Redding in 1979.

What are the chances?

Millions of cost-cutting Americans are asking: Ditch the landline phone and go completely wireless, or keep paying two bills for dependability and peace of mind? Many have already clipped the cord.

Wireless-only households have surpassed those solely dependent on landlines, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks the information.

Olive oil has the grape harvester to thank for its status as one of the fastest growing industries in California, soaring by 50 percent this year alone.
Without a modified version of the mechanical contraption -- it drives over treetops to harvest olives at up to 670 trees an hour -- olive oil would still be a boutique industry.

Chocolate provokes passion. Most seem to either love it or hate it, with just a few falling somewhere in between.
To learn about the evolution of chocolate from a bitter drink to the luxuriously decadent sweet it is today, we visited Louis Grivetti, a professor emeritus of nutrition at the University of California, Davis.

Tea has started wars. Diplomats have signed peace treaties while drinking it. And now it is fighting for the consumer market since Americans have learned of all its antioxidant-rich properties.

Excerpts from an interview with Dan Flynn, executive director of the year-old University of California-Davis Olive Center, which is partially funded by oil made from the trees on campus.
Q: Why has it taken so long for Americans to get on the olive-oil wagon?