Thanksgiving? No Thanks!
Why food writers secretly hate the November feast.
By Regina Schrambling Posted Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008

As a food writer, I should never admit this, but I really hate
Thanksgiving. Not the day, not the food, not the cooking or the shopping,
not even the sappy reason Americans ostensibly gather to gorge in late
November. What makes me totally crazy is the persistent pressure to
reinvent a wheel that has been going around quite nicely for more than 200
years. Every fall, writers and editors have to knock themselves out to come
up with a gimmick¡Xfast turkey, slow turkey, brined turkey, unbrined
turkey¡Xwhen the meal essentially has to stay the same. It's like redrawing
the Kama Sutra when readers really only care about the missionary position.

(more at:

<http://www.slate.com/id/2205363/> )

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:

> Thanksgiving? No Thanks!
> Why food writers secretly hate the November feast.
> By Regina Schrambling Posted Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008
>
> As a food writer, I should never admit this, but I really hate
> Thanksgiving. Not the day, not the food, not the cooking or the
> shopping, not even the sappy reason Americans ostensibly gather to
> gorge in late November. What makes me totally crazy is the persistent
> pressure to reinvent a wheel that has been going around quite nicely
> for more than 200 years. Every fall, writers and editors have to
> knock themselves out to come up with a gimmick¡Xfast turkey, slow
> turkey, brined turkey, unbrined turkey¡Xwhen the meal essentially has
> to stay the same. It's like redrawing the Kama Sutra when readers
> really only care about the missionary position.

Corrected:

Why food writers openly love the November feast

When we get tired of writing about gimmicks for the damn turkey, we can
start writing about us being ****ed off by all that talking about gimmicks.
--
ViLco
And the family stone

"ViLco" > ha scritto nel messaggio

>> Thanksgiving? No Thanks!
>> Why food writers secretly hate the November feast.

> When we get tired of writing about gimmicks for the damn turkey, we can
> start writing about us being ****ed off by all that talking about
> gimmicks.

So sardonic!