As I physically and mentally prepare for the meal of the year, I find comfort in Laurie Colwin's words.
"Although turkey is delicious in itself, it is burdened with context as the say in the literary criticism racket. A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without the national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles. For better and worse, the exhaustion, the exhilaration, the expectations, and the complications are a kind of emotional condiment, the secret element that gives turkey its essential spirit."
from More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
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