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November is the month we crave community and culinary togetherness. We buy a too-big turkey just to have sandwiches and leftover gravy the day after Thanksgiving. We cut out recipes for dinner from scratch, but deep-down we yearn for jellied cranberry sauce and pumpkin filling from a can. We hunger for a seat at a dining-room table filled
with Extended Family, eccentric friends and occasional strangers. We cross our fingers that this will be the year everyone behaves and no one leaves the table in tears. We binge on blessings and green-bean casserole,
Cornbread Dressing and cornucopias, feasts and football. And when it’s done, we’ll fold up the crepe-paper turkeys and blow out the Pilgrim candles and swear on the wishbone that next year we’ll eat out. Until it’s time to do it again. Cover copy by Nikki Hardin, art by Ali Douglass
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.” Samuel Pepys