For Thanksgiving, New Orleanians know how to celebrate this day of gluttony… er “thanks”… very well and (as expected) take any excuse to celebrate food appropriately. Natives of New Orleans, however, don’t realize they have different meal traditions than the rest of the U.S. until mu...
Set during the school dance competition, Sha-na-na delivers a rousing, energized, hi-octane version of the song while Randal Kleiser’s direction keeps the cameras moving nearly non-stop in perfect lockstep with Patricia Birch’s phenomenal choreography. I’m not kidding. This number is genius...
Nevertheless, if White Rose Estate’s Pinot Noir doesn’t charm even the most devout of Burgundy devotees, then I’ll eat my wine glass for Thanksgiving dinner. This pure beauty of bright red fruit, forest floor majesty, smoky minerality from the Jory soils and pitch-perfect, bright balance...
It's either beloved or despised, but a sweet potato casserole will almost always be found at an American Thanksgiving dinner table. The recipe involves roasting sweetened sweet potatoes topped with a gooey layer of marshmallows and was first introduced in 1917 thanks to the Angelus Marshmallows co...
What if Thanksgiving dinner were a normal supper plus a fancy dessert? Would we take more notice of the flavors and effort put into that one item? Would we take our time and savor it? Would we talk about it while envisioning the preparation? Would it remind us of stories of other desse...
Plants, flowers, wreaths, poinsettias the size of dinner plates. I am in search of antique ribbons which they will make up into bows before your eyes. When I pay the bill I understand why the locals call it Living Wallet. Jim’s exhortation to finish the decorating by Thanksgiving is not...
I’m anAutumnperson and being further up North so many of the leaves have already gifted us with their colourful joy…sigh, delightful.Time for hot chocolate, sweaters,“Hocus Pocus”, “Halloweentown”,Thanksgiving (Happy Thansgiving to all in Canada), apple cider, the new“Haunted Mansion”...
M: Mmm..., Mother's Day, National Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Valentine's Day. W: Not bad. When does its National Day come? And the Valentine's Day? M: The National Day comes on July 4th and the latter on February 14th. W: Talking of the Nation...
Right??? We joke, frequently, in my family about giving a Viking funeral to various faithful appliances/tools/etc, but if those things actually WERE combustible we probably would have actually done it! People name their roombas. They name their cars (though I stopped doing that because almost...
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