If you're looking for pretty serving pieces to dress up your dinner table for Thanksgiving, or any time this fall, Pfaltzgraff has some great options. I love the Plymouth dinnerware collection, with its harvest motif of pumpkins, squash, acorns and leaves. The Pfaltzgraff Plymouth Pie Server (Compare prices) is a great option if your metal pie pans are a little worse for the wear - just pop the whole pie, pan and all, into the server for a gorgeous presentation at the dessert table.

New pieces in the Pfaltzgraff Plymouth collection this year include a celery-shaped dish, a a squash-shaped vegetable bowl and a covered squash-shaped serving bowl. They look almost as delicious as whatever you put inside will look!

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Amazon.com is celebrating "crock-tober" by offering up to 30 percent off selected slow cookers. One of the best deals is for Cuisinart's 4-quart slow cooker, which is marked down to $78 from $145, but other brands available include West Bend, KitchenAid, Crockpot, Dr. Weil and Euro-Pro. With the cold weather coming, this is a great chance to stock up.

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