Click on the video screen above to watch my Tribe and I celebrate the season with a Thanksgiving Champagne Toast! With so much to be thankful for this holiday, I hosted my annual Friends Thanksgiving soiree and invited everyone around the table to share their stories of gratitude. In an effort to convert our British [...]
November 25th, 2009
Market Report: Gobble, Gobble
I have this friend, a certain Mr. Snotty McSnobster, which, if you can believe it, is not his real name, and with whom I disagree on just about everything… except maybe the reigning superiority of cheese as the world’s perfect food.
When he says “slow-food eating locavore” the words are dripping with derision; when I [...]
November 21st, 2008
In Search of a Good Dinner Party
Gobble, Gobble! It’s turkey time, and when Americans pull up seats to give thanks at dining tables across the country next Thursday, home chefs will have slaved over stove tops and filled centerpieces with cranberries. A great dinner party should taste impressive and feel easy. There’s no simple recipe for success, but I recently caught [...]
November 23rd, 2007
Postcards From a Day of Giving Thanks
Sara (from Chicago) :
Thanksgiving a la Barron:
Two notable traditions were carried on this year:
1) The Barron Family Walk. My mother forces my brother, father and me on a two-hour-long walk around our neighborhood prior to our Thanksgiving dinner. “Why?” you may ask? Is it scenic? Not especially. Do we pay a visit to old friends? We do [...]
November 22nd, 2007
Pumpkin Risotto
It’s turkey time!, which means two things for pumpkins nation-wide: (a) they are on sale, and (b) most of those bought for Thanksgiving will come in a can. Never one to turn down a slice of my Mamma’s pumpkin pie, I hold no grudges against a classic made with One-Pie Pumpkin, but this year I’m bringing an [...]
November 22nd, 2007
Lumberjacks and Jack o’Lanterns
Though, technically, autumn began a few weeks ago, there have been few nights in the past couple of months with real fall crispness. Remember how warm it still was on Halloween? And I don’t just look forward to autumn—I crave it. The burning colors, brisk air that yields pink cheeks, leaves crunching under a new [...]
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