For many, many, many years I gave a NY Day party. It started as a NY Eve party when I was in my late teens or early 20's, and then as time progressed it moved to a NY brunch, and then since no one (including the party giver) wanted to get up in time for [...]
For many years I and many of my friends were given a free turkey from our employers. Most of us worked in the food business and typically folks in this industry gift their staff a holiday bird. We started a tradition of having a second Thanksgiving. One Thanksgiving with our family and a second one [...]
LOVE Thanksgiving. It’s the one holiday of the year where the one and only reason we gather is to eat. I know there’s stuff about the Pilgrims in there but it’s really about the food. Recently my friends at Diablo Magazine contacted me about designing a super simple casual Thanksgiving menu. Click here to see [...]
Thanksgiving is one of my all time favorite holidays, not a surprise since it's all about feasting. When I was a kid my parents hosted it and we would have around 40 people attend. Since almost every holiday was 40 or more, this didn't seem odd to me. What was odd was when in [...]
Here comes another Yiayia memory! Even though the woman had nine kids, worked like a dog every single day, and wasn’t a very good cook she repeatedly made two things that were both complicated and time consuming. One was a Greek pastry called Thiples or Xerotigina (same thing, two different names) which is strips [...]
