The New Yorker’s Food Issue: “Tea & Wallaby”
Appropriately, since it was Thanksgiving week, the editors of The New Yorker dedicated their entire November 24, 2008 issue to …
Monthly Archives: November 2008
UPDATED: BREAKING: Indian Food Critic / Journalist Sabina Sehgal Saikia Dead in Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Sadly, I’ve just learned that Sabina Sehgal Saikia’s death has been confirmed by her friends and family: A massive fire …
Thanksgiving in the Truman White House 1946: Poor Harry
President Harry S. Truman found himself on the slimming end of things in 1946. The New York Times reported that …
BREAKING: Camp David / White House Thanksgiving Menu 2008
Just in time for Thanksgiving eve, the White House uploaded the following menu that President Bush and his family will …
Thanksgiving in the Bush White House: 2006 Menu
Like presidents before him, George W. Bush prefers eating his turkey at Camp David. Here’s what he loaded up on …
Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards
Fascinating old-fashioned trend: nineteenth-century postcards for Thanksgiving. Take a look at more here, most featuring Thanksgiving feasts. Enjoy savoring a …
A Meditation on Pumpkin Pie
Just in time for Halloween, the frost descended on the pumpkin weeks ago. It shows no sign of retreating yet. …
President Bill Clinton’s First Thanksgiving in the White House: The Menu
U.S. Presidents since Eisenhower seem to prefer the rusticity of Camp David for Thanksgiving. Bill Clinton ate his first Thanksgiving …
Obama, the Cookbook
I knew it would happen. An Obama cookbook, or rather, an Obama Foodie book. After all, a guy’s got to …
Food Summit 2009: It MUST Happen
As we prepare for Thanksgiving, that largest of American feast days, our own “Let Us Feast” event, the United Nations …
