Where to turn when your holiday meal turns bad

When your holiday dinner looks more disaster than decadent, finding expert help is just a call or click away. Here are some of this year’s holiday cooking hot lines and Web sites:

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— Crisco Pie Hotline: 877-367-7438

— Butterball Turkey Talk-Line: (800) BUTTERBALL or http://www.butterball.com

— Empire Kosher poultry customer hot line: (717) 436-7055 or http://www.empirekosher.com/index.htm

— Fleischmann’s Yeast Baker’s Help Line: (800) 777-4959 or http://www.breadworld.com/help.aspx

— Foster Farms Turkey Helpline: (800) 255-7227 or http://www.fosterfarms.com

— General Mills: (800) 248-7310

— King Arthur Flour Co.’s Bakers Hotline: (802) 649-3717 or e-mail questions to bakers(at)kingarthurflour.com

— Nestle Toll House Baking Information Line: (800) 637-8537 or http://verybestbaking.com

— Ocean Spray consumer help line: (800) 662-3263 or http://www.oceanspray.com

— Perdue consumer help line: (800) 4PERDUE or http://www.perdue.com

— Reynolds Turkey Tips Hotline (800) 745-4000 or http://www.reynoldskitchens.com

— U.S. Department of Agriculture Meat and Poultry Hotline: (888) 674-6854 or http://www.fsis.usda.gov

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