November is here, and I find myself thinking often about past Thanksgiving gatherings. During my youth my mother’s family convened with lots of cousins, aunts, and uncles, all of us waiting to dig into the holiday specialties—Aunt Dean’s baked turkey and marshmallow-topped yams, my mom’s–Read more

While our family has favorite dishes that return to the table at Thanksgiving over and over each year, we also usually bring a new dish or two to the celebration. Some years it’s a novel dessert or a new way to cook the turkey. But–Read more