Sam Sifton’s Thanksgiving Help Desk over at the NYT.com may be the best thing you will read on the Internet today. Particularly if you don’t happen to be the one in the kitchen cooking. Also, apparently there are some jokester West Wing fans out there.

The New York Times just announced that they have tapped deputy managing editor Jon Landman to replace Sam Sifton as the Times culture editor. Bill Keller calls the appointment a “no-brainer” saying that Landman “yearns to get back to running coverage.”

Yesterday, Sam Sifton was named successor to Frank Bruni as New York Times food critic. Despite laments at Bruni’s departure, devoted foodies may welcome the choice: where Bruni is an eater, Sifton is a chef: the former writes in Born Round of inhaling cold sesame noodles on his futon, while his successor will teach you how to make them.

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced Frank Bruni’s replacement as the Times’ restaurant critic — culture editor Sam Sifton — in an email to his staff this afternoon. Sifton, ultimately the “obvious and eccentric choice” for Keller, won out over two or three other Times writers and Brett Anderson of the Times-Picayune, the only external candidate.