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to pay the bills!” he says.

“I don’t think about retiring. I think about how I can keep singing for the rest of my life. I just have to pace myself.” For a list of upcoming tour dates, go to Parade.com/mathis.

P Julia Roberts

Q: Is that Julia Roberts’s

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voice I hear in the new Nationwide commercial?

—G. Allen, Cross Plains, Wis.

A: Good ear! Roberts’s

voice turns out to be as recognizable as her megawatt smile. “She was the perfect fit because she has a familiar voice that brings our brand character to life,” says a rep for the insurance company.

The actress, 45, joins a long line of celebrities who’ve read copy for various ad campaigns.

Uncover more voiceovers at Parade.com/ad.

P Housewife Kyle Richards

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WALTER SCOTT ASKS …

Omar Sharif The legendary actor, 80, celebrates the 50th anniversary of his star-making role in Lawrence of Arabia (available on Blu-ray Nov. 13).

How did the film affect your life? As an actor in Egypt,

I was nobody. It was extraordinary to suddenly become somebody in the world. I’ve never forgotten that.

P Johnny Mathis

Q: Does Johnny Mathis still perform? I’ve always loved his singing.

—Suzie Schmick, Portland, Ore.

A: It’s been 56 years

since Mathis, 77, recorded his first hit song, “Wonderful!

Wonderful!”—and the balladeer is still on the road. “I do just enough

Could you have ever imagined the success it achieved?

I actually thought it would be a very boring film because there were no girls in it! I don’t know how [director] David Lean thought a three-and-a-half-hour film with only men and not a lot of action would do well, but it did.

How was filming with Peter O’Toole? We developed a

real friendship. When we first met, he said, “No one in the world is called Omar Sharif! I shall call you Fred,” and he called me Fred from then on.

You were once ranked among the world’s best bridge players. Do you still play? No. I stopped playing

because I’m not as good as I used to be, and I didn’t want to be second best.

Send your questions for Walter Scott to personality @parade.com or P.O. Box 5001, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001.

wives series, are the dramatic trips taken by the cast members staged? —Kara Moore,

Nampa, Idaho

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Richards, 43, says the trips are discussed with production, but the ladies make their own travel plans, and the drama is 100 percent real. “Issues always come up. We shouldn’t travel together!” she says. What does she think of new Housewife Yolanda Foster (Bravo, Mondays)? Find out at wetpaint.com/rhobh.

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My husband and I have never seen Brian Williams wear a bad tie.

Does he choose them himself?

—Christine K., Stafford, Va.

“Believe it or not, I buy them myself!” says the 53-yearold host of NBC’s Rock Center. “Like all tie-wearing guys, I have my favorites. The way I figure it, if I wear a great tie, maybe it will attract attention away from my broken nose, which dates back to high school football.”

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Parade CALLING ALL ONE DIRECTION FANS! MAIL CALL Troops in Afghanistan with care packages from Operation Gratitude.

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VETERANS DAY 1

Share your miles. With just a phone call or a few clicks, you can transfer frequent flier miles from many airlines to Fisher House Foundation’s “Hero Miles” program, which has provided more than 30,000 flights to service members and their loved ones traveling to VA hospitals. (fisherhouse.org)

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Make a quilt for a child.

Sign up with Operation Kid Comfort to receive fabric squares printed with photos from a family with a deployed service member; sew the squares into a quilt (it takes about 10 hours) and then mail your gift to a child who misses Mom or Dad. (asymca.org)

Want to say thank you? Here are four ways to show your appreciation to America’s vets and those still in uniform.

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Print out the DAV Rx Card. It’s free, available to anyone (regardless of your insurance), and every time you use the card at a participating pharmacy, 50 cents goes to Disabled American Veterans (DAV). Plus, it may help you save up to 75 percent on your prescriptions. (davrxcard.com)

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Send leftover Halloween candy. Or a knitted scarf— or best of all, a handwritten letter.

Operation Gratitude e is collecting these items and more to fill care packages for vets and activeduty troops (like those above) and their families. Visit operationgratitude .com to find a list of what to donate.

The books we cherish speak volumes about us, and the delightful new hardcover My Ideal Bookshelf offers a peek at those that have shaped the lives of dozens of celebrities, including rocker Patti Smith, writer Malcolm Gladwell, and skateboarder Tony Hawk, who says his choices (below) “are about pushing the boundaries of the mainstream.”

Charmingly illustrated

by Jane Mount, this is a book to savor and share.

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If you’ve watched them on the Today show and you plan to download the new album, there’s only one thing left to do—enter for a chance to win a trip to New York to meet the band and see them in concert on Dec. 3 at Madison Square Garden. The winner will also take home a signed piece of their Teen Choice award! To enter and for official rules, go to Parade.com/onedirection.

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Today, I took steps to balance my TYPE 2 DIABETES. Today, I chose exercise and talked to my doctor.

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Serious side effects can happen in people who take JANUVIA, including pancreatitis, which may be severe and lead to death. Before you start taking JANUVIA, tell your doctor if you’ve ever had pancreatitis. Stop taking JANUVIA and call your doctor right away if you have pain in your stomach area (abdomen) that is severe and will not go away. The pain may be felt going from your abdomen through to your back. The pain may happen with or without vomiting. These may be symptoms of pancreatitis.

Do not take JANUVIA if you are allergic to any of its ingredients, including sitagliptin.

Symptoms of serious allergic reactions to JANUVIA, including rash, hives, and swelling of the face, lips, tongue, and throat that may cause difďŹ culty breathing or swallowing, can occur. If you have any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, stop taking JANUVIA and call your doctor right away. a

Kidney problems, sometimes requiring dialysis, have been reported.

If you take JANUVIA with another medicine that can cause low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), such as a sulfonylurea or insulin, your risk of getting low blood sugar is higher. The dose of your sulfonylurea medicine or insulin may need to be lowered while you use JANUVIA. Signs and symptoms of low blood sugar may include headache, drowsiness, weakness, dizziness, confusion, irritability, hunger, fast heartbeat, sweating, and feeling jittery.

Your doctor may do blood tests before and during treatment with JANUVIA to see how well your kidneys are working. Based on these results, your doctor may change your dose of JANUVIA. The most common side effects of JANUVIA are upper respiratory tract infection, stuffy or runny nose and sore throat, and headache.

Call 1-888-JANUVIA or visit www.Januvia.com.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

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Medication Guide JANUVIAÂŽ (jah-NEW-vee-ah) (sitagliptin) Tablets Read this Medication Guide carefully before you start taking JANUVIA and each time you get a reďŹ ll. There may be new information. This information does not take the place of talking with your doctor about your medical condition or your treatment. If you have any questions about JANUVIA, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

What is the most important information I should know about JANUVIA? Serious side effects can happen in people taking JANUVIA, including inammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) which may be severe and lead to death.

Certain medical problems make you more likely to get pancreatitis.

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s SWELLING OF THE FACE LIPS TONGUE AND THROAT THAT MAY CAUSE DIFlCULTY IN BREATHING OR SWALLOWING What should I tell my doctor before taking JANUVIA? Before you take JANUVIA, tell your doctor if you: s HAVE OR HAVE HAD INmAMMATION OF YOUR PANCREAS PANCREATITIS s HAVE KIDNEY PROBLEMS s HAVE ANY OTHER MEDICAL CONDITIONS s ARE PREGNANT OR PLAN TO BECOME PREGNANT )T IS NOT KNOWN IF *!.56)! WILL HARM YOUR UNBORN BABY )F YOU ARE pregnant, talk with your doctor about the best way to control your blood sugar while you are pregnant.

Pregnancy Registry: If you take JANUVIA at any time during your pregnancy, talk with your doctor about how you can join the JANUVIA pregnancy registry. The purpose of this registry is to collect information about the health of you and your

BABY 9OU CAN ENROLL IN THIS REGISTRY BY CALLING s ARE BREAST FEEDING OR PLAN TO BREAST FEED )T IS NOT KNOWN IF *!.56)! WILL PASS INTO YOUR BREAST MILK 4ALK WITH YOUR doctor about the best way to feed your baby if you are taking JANUVIA. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, INCLUDING PRESCRIPTION AND NON PRESCRIPTION MEDICINES VITAMINS

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Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your doctor and pharmacist when you get a new medicine.

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skip the missed dose and go back to your regular schedule. Do not take two doses of JANUVIA at the same time. s )F YOU TAKE TOO MUCH *!.56)!

CALL YOUR DOCTOR OR LOCAL 0OISON #ONTROL #ENTER RIGHT AWAY s 7HEN YOUR BODY IS UNDER SOME TYPES OF STRESS SUCH AS FEVER TRAUMA SUCH AS A CAR ACCIDENT INFECTION OR surgery, the amount of diabetes medicine that you need may change. Tell your doctor right away if you have any of these conditions and follow your doctor’s instructions. s #HECK YOUR BLOOD SUGAR AS YOUR DOCTOR TELLS YOU TO

s 3TAY ON YOUR PRESCRIBED DIET AND EXERCISE PROGRAM WHILE TAKING *!.56)! s 4ALK TO YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT HOW TO PREVENT RECOGNIZE AND MANAGE LOW BLOOD SUGAR HYPOGLYCEMIA HIGH BLOOD sugar (hyperglycemia), and problems you have because of your diabetes. s 9OUR DOCTOR WILL CHECK YOUR DIABETES WITH REGULAR BLOOD TESTS INCLUDING YOUR BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS AND YOUR HEMOGLOBIN ! # What are the possible side effects of JANUVIA? Serious side effects have happened in people taking JANUVIA. s 3EE “What is the most important information I should know about JANUVIA?�. s Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). If you take JANUVIA with another medicine that can cause low blood sugar, such as a sulfonylurea or insulin, your risk of getting low blood sugar is higher. The dose of your sulfonylurea medicine or insulin may need to be lowered while you use JANUVIA. Signs and symptoms of low blood sugar may include:

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These are not all the possible side effects of JANUVIA. For more information, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

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General information about the use of JANUVIA Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes that are not listed in Medication Guides. Do not use JANUVIA for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give JANUVIA to other people, even if they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them.

4HIS -EDICATION 'UIDE SUMMARIZES THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT *!.56)! )F YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE information, talk with your doctor. You can ask your doctor or pharmacist for additional information about JANUVIA that is written for health professionals. For more information, go to www.JANUVIA.com OR CALL What are the ingredients in JANUVIA? Active ingredient: sitagliptin.

Inactive ingredients: microcrystalline cellulose, anhydrous dibasic calcium phosphate, croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, and sodium stearyl fumarate. The tablet ďŹ lm coating contains the following inactive ingredients: POLYVINYL ALCOHOL POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL TALC TITANIUM DIOXIDE RED IRON OXIDE AND YELLOW IRON OXIDE What is type 2 diabetes?

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HAVE AN APPY THANKSGIVING! Epicurious can help you plan your feast with hundreds of Turkey Day recipes. ZipList can turn your menu into a shareable shopping list annotated with deals at local grocers (enter recipes online or clip from the Web).

And Thanksgiving Coloring Book can keep the kiddies busy with messfree virtual fingerpainting while you cook. (Free; Android, iPad, and iPhone)

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DISAPPEARING ACTS Get breathtakingly close to endangered species and landscapes in two documentary projects. The series Frontier Earth Presented by Walmart (Animal Planet, premieres Nov. 13) highlights elusive wildlife like orcas and Komodo dragons; the prizewinning Chasing Ice (in theaters this month) provides striking evidence of global warming in places like Greenland’s ice sheet (above).

You can help raise this amount during American Diabetes Month by sharing a personal photo, via Facebook, that captures what living with the disease means to you or a loved one—the worries, the dedication, the trials, and the triumphs. The pictures will be used to create a mosaic that shows what this life-changing illness is really like.

For every image uploaded, CVS/pharmacy will donate $1 to the American Diabetes Association, up to $25K. (diabetesmosaic.org)

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As the five hosts of The Chew prove, cooking up a hit talk show is like creating a memorable Thanksgiving: Take several cups of laughter, mix in a few spoonfuls of teasing, add a pinch of drama—and top with heaps of love

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hen a TV show boasts a cast full of foodies and a lineup dedicated to the art of eating (family-style meals! potluck parties!), a deli salad for lunch or a sandwich from craft services simply won’t do. And so on a recent fall day at the daytime talker The Chew, homemade lasagna is making the rounds backstage, whipped up by cohost Mario Batali, 52, he of orange Crocs–wearing, Gwyneth Paltrow–hanging, Italian cooking fame. “The first year, I didn’t moderate my eating habits at all, just ate the entire plate of food,” says Carla Hall, 48, a Top Chef finalist and The Chew’s dessert diva. “I gained 20 pounds!” • Hall has since learned to stick to only a few bites of the dishes prepared on set and off, and she’s not alone in making some adjustments. Meat lover Michael Symon, 43, a restaurateur and Iron Chef America star, credits healthy-eating author Daphne Oz, 26 (yes, the daughter of that Dr. Oz), for teaching him to put low-fat ingredients in his recipes; and fashion expert Clinton Kelly, 43, who also stars on What Not to Wear, has come to appreciate Batali’s, uh, unique style sense, which usually includes a fleece vest and colorful socks. “It works for him,” Kelly says. • The group’s chemistry is working, too: The show’s ratings are up in its second season, and a cookbook collaboration, The Chew: Food. Life. Fun., was an instant best seller. What do these kitchen gurus know that we don’t about throwing the perfect holiday get-together? Read on to find out.

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Mario

As a father of two, how do you get kids involved with the preparations?

I always make sure my kids have set tasks. I have them peel onions and garlic, pick herbs; once they were old enough, around 7, I let them do easy knife work like cutting the ends of the celery. They really want to eat everything because they’ve helped make everything.

What’s your secret for minimizing holiday cooking stress?

From the moment I wake up, I plan out every 15 minutes, starting at 10 a.m. and going all the way up until service time. Everything has an in time, an out time, and a cut time. So if I’m serving at 4 p.m., I make sure the turkey is out at 3:15—it needs 45 minutes to rest and cool—and then I just go backward from there.

Ever had a Thanksgiving kitchen disaster?

When my brother and I were in college, we were moving the turkey and dropped the whole thing—the stuffing exploded out of the bird! We quickly picked it back up. We thought that was our best turkey, and in subsequent years, we actually dropped a little stuffing on the floor just for good luck.

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outside and a meat thermometer reads 165° at fattest part, about 1 hour (plus or minus 10 minutes).

7. Remove and allow to rest 15 minutes before carving. Add remaining 1 cup wine to roasting pan and deglaze, scraping with a wooden spoon. Cook for 5 minutes, then add remaining ¼ cup oil. Shake pan to emulsify sauce and season with salt and pepper.

8. Carve roast into ½-inch-thick slices and drizzle with pan sauce. Serve.

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Batali suggests using your scraps for an Italian classic: turkey tortellini.

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STUFFED TURKEY Serves: At least 8 Total Time: 60–120 min

1 whole turkey breast (5–6 lb total), boned, halved, and butterflied by your butcher + Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 Tbsp plus ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil ½ lb pancetta, cut into ½-inch pieces 1½ lb ground pork shoulder 12 chestnuts, roasted, peeled, and halved

10 prunes, pitted and quartered 2 cups fresh bread crumbs 1 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano, freshly grated 2 eggs 2 Tbsp freshly ground black pepper + Freshly grated nutmeg 1 Tbsp fresh rosemary, chopped 1 Tbsp sage, chopped 3 cups dry white wine 1. Pound butterflied breast halves to flatten, season with salt and pepper, and refrigerate overnight.

2. Preheat oven to 400°F. 3. In a 12- to 14-inch sauté pan, heat 3 Tbsp oil over medium-high until smoking. Add pancetta and cook until golden brown, 7 to 9 minutes. Add pork and cook for 25 minutes or until

it starts to brown, stirring regularly.

4. Drain all but 4 Tbsp fat from pan and add chestnuts and prunes.

Continue cooking for 8 minutes or until prunes start to soften. Remove from heat and allow to cool for about 20 minutes.

5. Add bread crumbs, Parmigiano, eggs, 2 Tbsp pepper, nutmeg, and herbs and mix well with your hands.

(Overmixing can result in a lead torpedo for stuffing, so do not overdo it.) Place turkey breasts on a cutting board, skin side down, and divide stuffing between them. Roll each breast like a jelly roll and tie firmly in several places with butcher’s twine. Place on a rack in a roasting pan, skin side up.

6. Pour 2 cups wine over turkey and season with salt and pepper. Roast until breasts are dark golden brown

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Sometimes people get these 16-, 18-, 20-pound turkeys, and they end up drying out more when

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How do you juggle making multiple dishes for so many people?

Most of my prep is done the night before. I try to get a lot of the casserole sides pretty much done first—before I even put the turkey in— because I can always put those in at the end to finish them or reheat them. So the casserole sides go in until they’re almost

done; then they come out and the turkey goes in; then I do all my stove-top work while it’s cooking. Then when the bird comes out, the casserole dishes go back in to finish, and by the time the bird’s rested, they’re done and we serve.

Whew! Sounds exhausting. How do you unwind after?

By watching football on the couch with my 94-year-old grandfather, my dad, and my son, all of us falling asleep within 15 minutes. Four drooling men on the couch!

PER SERVING: 150 cal, 6g carbs, 2g protein, 14g fat, 0mg chol, 130mg sodium, 2g fiber

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BRUSSELS SPROUTS WITH WALNUTS AND CAPERS Serves: 5 Total Time: 10 min

+ Canola oil, for deep-frying ½ serrano chile, seeded and minced 1½ tsp honey 2 Tbsp red wine vinegar 1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil ½ lb brussels sprouts, trimmed and quartered + Salt and pepper 1 Tbsp capers ¼ cup walnut pieces, toasted 1. Fill a medium pot two-thirds full of canola oil. Heat to 350°F. 2. While oil is heating, whisk together chile, honey, vinegar, and olive oil in a bowl large enough to toss all brussels sprouts. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Keep bowl near stove top.

3. Fry brussels sprouts until edges begin to curl and brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Carefully add capers and stand back (they tend to splatter). Fry 1 minute. Transfer brussels sprouts and capers to bowl; mix to coat. Add salt and pepper to taste and toss in toasted walnuts.

LEFTOVERS IDEA #2

If you wake up hungry the morning after the big Thanksgiving feast, try Symon’s holiday twist on an old brunch staple, eggs Benedict. To make a single serving, fry one of your extra sweet potatoes until it’s crisp, then top with turkey slices, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce.

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Remember that [your calorie intake] balances out over three days. So don’t eat a ton the day before and don’t eat a ton the day after, and enjoy your full [Thanksgiving] meal. I definitely have pie!

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Corn pudding. I know it’s terrible for me. It has, like, two sticks of butter and two containers of sour cream, but it’s just delicious! (Get Daphne’s corn pudding recipe at Parade .com/chew.)

Share with us one of your favorite family traditions.

We play a huge game of Oz family football before the meal to get us out of my mom and grandma’s way, but also to work up an appetite. After the meal, it’s naptime, and when we wake up, it’s old movies and popcorn. >

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Thanksgiving | from page 10 DAPHNE OZ’S

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1. Preheat oven to 400°F. 2. On a baking sheet, bake bread bits until crunchy, about 10 minutes.

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4. Add broth until moist. Cover with foil and bake 25 minutes. Remove foil and bake 10 minutes or until very hot. Add salt and pepper to taste. (Tip: In turkey, use less broth.)

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Clinton

KELLY What’s the best way to set a holiday table?

The same components that go into an interesting outfit— color, texture, pattern, shine—

Designate someone as your second in command! That person should make sure everyone’s being entertained, the wine glasses are full, and everyone’s out of the kitchen during the hour before dinner is served.

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One minor family drama!

There’s always one little comment that someone takes the wrong way. >

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People wanting to help out in the kitchen during that last hour. You almost need to have a list of things for them to do outside of the kitchen—“My mother wants to help, so maybe I can have her hang my shower curtain!”

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+ Canola oil ¼ cup confectioners’ sugar Caramel dipping sauce: 1 cup granulated sugar 6 Tbsp unsalted butter ½ cup sour cream 2 tsp kosher salt 1. Place shredded pumpkin in a towel and roll tightly, wringing out to extract as much liquid as possible. In a bowl, combine pumpkin, apple, brown sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg, >

Do you have any postmeal traditions?

Games! My husband, Matthew, and I took an acting class together, so there are all these acting exercises we drag our family through. There’s one where you take cards and write an adjective and a profession on each.

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2. Combine flour, ¼ tsp salt, and baking powder. Set aside. In a medium saucepan, combine water, milk, and butter. Melt butter and bring mixture to a simmer. Add flour mixture and stir until smooth. Cook until mixture doesn’t stick to fingers when pinched. Let cool.

3. Add eggs one at a time and mix until smooth. Stir in spiced pumpkin mixture. (Batter may be made up to 24 hours ahead.

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Dough should rise to top of oil.

Flip or turn in oil to brown on all sides. With a slotted spoon, remove beignets from pot. Drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tsp cinnamon mixed with confectioners’ sugar. Serve alone or with sauce.

For caramel dipping sauce: 1. Heat sugar on medium-high in a heavy-bottomed 3-quart saucepan. As soon as sugar begins to melt, stir vigorously with a whisk or wooden spoon. When sugar comes to a boil, stop stirring.

2. After sugar crystals have melted (and sugar is dark amber in color), immediately add butter to pan. Whisk until butter has melted, then remove from heat.

3. Slowly add sour cream and salt and continue whisking until incorporated. Whisk until caramel is smooth. Let cool in pan for a couple of minutes before pouring into a mason jar. Let cool to room temperature. Store in fridge for up to 2 weeks. Warm before serving.

LEFTOVERS IDEA #3

Turn your dinner into a salad!

For croutons, Hall cuts excess cornbread stuffing into small cubes, then bakes them until lightly browned before tossing over greens with cranberries and turkey.

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immy Nowell of Clifton, Tex., had always been a top-notch salesman. Locals in search of auto parts knew he could get them exactly what they needed. But in 2000, when he was 59, Nowell’s speech, along with his walking, started slowing. Sometimes he needed a cane. Later, he became disorganized, losing his train of thought or turning on the computer and freezing, not knowing what to do. In 2005, he lost his job as a result of his behavior.

Still, Nowell and his wife, Ann, just chalked up the symptoms to old age.

Then in 2007, Nowell started blanking on Ann’s name. In a panic, she dragged her husband to doctor after doctor, but no one could agree on a diagnosis. One specialist thought Nowell had Parkinson’s disease; another said it was Alzheimer’s. Finally, in 2009, Nowell’s condition was correctly identified when a neurologist took an MRI and compared it to a baseline image taken a few years earlier: Nowell had normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), a condition that occurs when the clear fluid surrounding the brain fails to be reabsorbed, eventually leading to problems with

memory, as well as bladder control and walking (one of the distinguishing signs is a disturbed gait). The symptoms creep up slowly at first—and when the condition is brought to a doctor’s attention, it’s often misdiagnosed.

“About 30 percent of my [NPH] patients were told they had Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s,” says Mark Luciano, M.D., neurosurgery director at Cleveland Clinic.

“Sometimes they were told they were just getting old.”

As a result, it’s tough to know how prevalent NPH truly is, but the Hydrocephalus Association estimates that at least 350,000 Americans—and 5 percent of people with dementia— have the condition. A 2005

Virginia Commonwealth University paper estimated that 9 percent of patients in assisted-living facilities may have NPH. The good news is that unlike the vast majority of conditions that cause dementia, NPH can be treated by surgery to reduce pressure in the brain. The procedure is successful in 85 to 90 percent of NPH patients, as long as they have no complicating factors, like a spinal condition, says Michael Williams, M.D., director of Sinai Hospital’s Adult Hydrocephalus Center in Baltimore.

For Nowell, news of a cure was welcome, but also frightening: A dimesize hole would be drilled into his skull and a shunt implanted to drain the excess fluid. Nevertheless, the Nowells decided to go forward with the surgery.

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By Anne Lamott

Counting Our Blessings No matter how you say it, grace can transform an ordinary meal into a celebration—of family, love, and gratitude

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I knew even as a little girl that everyone at every table needed blessing and encouragement, but my family didn’t ask for it. Instead, my parents raised glasses of wine to the chef: Cheers. Dig in. But I had a terrible secret, which was that I believed in God, a divine presence who heard me when I prayed, who stayed close to me in the dark. So at 6 years old I began to infiltrate religious families like a spy—Mata Hari in plaid sneakers.

One of my best friends was a Catholic girl. Her boisterous family bowed its collective head and said, “Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts. …” I was so hungry for these words; it was like a cool breeze, a polite thank-you note to God, the silky magnetic energy of gratitude. I still love that line.

I believed that if your family said grace, it meant you were a happy family, all evidence to the contrary. But I saw at certain tables that an improvised grace could cause friction or discomfort.

My friend Mark reports that at his big southern childhood Thanksgivings, someone always managed to say something that made poor Granny feel half dead.

“It would be along the lines of ‘And Lord, we are just glad you have seen fit to keep Mama with us for one more year.’ We would

all strain to see Granny giving him the fisheye.”

I noticed some families shortened the pro forma blessing so they could get right to the meal. If there were more males than females, it was a boy chant, said as one word: “GodisgreatGodisgoodletus thankHimforourfoodAmen.” I also noticed that grace usually wasn’t said if the kids were eating in front of the TV, as if God refused to listen over the sound of it.

And we’ve all been held hostage by grace sayers who use the opportunity to work the room, like the

WE’RE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THIS FOOD DIDN’T JUST APPEAR: SOMEONE GREW IT, GROUND IT, BOUGHT IT, BAKED IT; WOW.

Church Lady. But more often, people simply say thank you—we understand how far short we must fall, how selfish we can be, how selfrighteous, what brats. And yet God has given us this marvelous meal.

It turns out that my two brothers and I all grew up to be middleaged believers. I’ve been a member of the same Presbyterian church for 27 years. My older brother became a born-again Christian— but don’t ask him to give the blessing, as it can last forever. I adore him, but your food will grow cold.

My younger brother is an unconfirmed but freelance Catholic.

So now someone at our holiday tables always ends up saying grace.

I think we’re in it for the pause, the quiet thanks for love and for our blessings, before the shoveling begins. For a minute, our stations are tuned to a broader, richer radius. We’re acknowledging that this food didn’t just magically appear: Someone grew it, ground it, bought it, baked it; wow.

We say thank you for the miracle that we have stuck together all these years, in spite of it all; that we have each other’s backs, and hilarious companionship. We say thank you for the plentiful and outrageous food: Kathy’s lox, Robby’s bûche de Noël. We pray to be mindful of the needs of others. We savor these moments out of time, when we are conscious of love’s presence, of Someone’s great abiding generosity to our dear and motley family, these holy moments of gratitude. And that is grace.

Anne Lamott’s newest book, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, is out this month.

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