Bon Appetit – November 2020
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Inside Bon Appetit Magazine November 2020 Issue
MY FAMI LY HAS OUR THANKSGIVING system down to a T. Or, I should say, down to the manila folder in which we keep a decade’s worth of menus marked up with quantities and guest lists, keeping tabs on the first dish to go (mac and cheese) and the biggest hits (Dad’s chicken-and-waffles appetizer, Mom’s perfect squash soup). Every year I perform a sleight of hand, making sure we end up with an extra tray of cornbread dressing (p. 73), my favorite, that I can eat for days afterward, sometimes straight from the fridge like a teenager, until it’s gone. My brother mixes cocktails, his girlfriend roasts the turkey, and a family friend always brings the most beautiful carved glass platter decorated artfully with half-moons of winter fruit.
Inevitably someone turns on a football game and someone else puts on a kettle for chai, and my grandmother promises that next year she’ll make pumpkin halwa, a pudding-like treat I love, one that would look right at home next to both silver-leaf kaju katli (p. 28) and a tall sweet potato cake (p. 79). We never make pies because we know someone will bring an extra, and I think that about sums up what the holiday has always meant to me: good food. The love and support of our community. And familiarity too.
You know the drill from here: This year will be different. Like so many of you, I don’t know where I’ll be, or whom I’ll be with, or what I’ll be eating. (Or who our next president will be—if you’re reading this before November 3, vote!) I’ve found comfort in reading through this issue’s very 2020, new-to-everyone Thanksgiving menu plans (hello, tater tot casserole on p. 74), learning new-to-me techniques from the recipes (hello, tiny pies on p. 78!), and remembering that I’m not alone, that
I am not the only one trying my best to figure things out.
I don’t know how you plan to celebrate this month, if at all. But I hope you have plenty of good food and good people around you, two things we know can always help us through.
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