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A s Thanksgiving approaches and home cooks’ anxieties rise, Blue Smoke is colluding with prospective customers by offering to plate food on the host’s own china, to “allow your guests to believe everything is homemade.” Further the illusion with the wafting aroma of pies like bourbon-pecan, apple crumb, or walnut-cranberry, available not only ready-to-serve but, for the first time, frozen and oven-ready. (Pie orders taken through November 24 at 212-447-6058; $26 each, serving 8 to 10.)

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