My great-aunt and uncle and cousins would come over and we would all squeeze around the dining room table, clad with handmade turkey place cards, of course. In homage to my Pilgrim ancestors, we adapted to our new land (which, ironically, was their old land) and ate what was available and affordable: Chinese. While Thanksgiving has evolved commercially to include giant inflatable floats, tofurkey and Black Friday, the concept of sharing with family and friends remains intact. The tables...

Another evening, at dusk, driving along Seneca Lake, we passed the ghostly outline of a horse and buggy driven by one of the region's Mennonite farmers. Containers on a shelf offered slices, some from well-known varieties like Jonagold and McIntosh, others the rarer kinds increasingly popular among connoisseurs turned off by the vapid taste of mass-produced fruit. The landscape was formed 2 million years ago, when a series of glacial advances and retreats scooped out north-south river...

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Scrooge ( 97) A burdened woman who has lost the spirit of Christmas and is quickly losing faith in humanity is visited by three spirits who remind her how to live. LIFE Movie: Home by Christmas ( 06) A recently single woman must struggle to support herself and her child and cope with her shattered dreams after leaving her two-timing husband. FOOD Wintertime Treats Unwrapped How candy cane trees, ribbon candy, and yule logs are made; fruitcake toss; visit the Campbell Soup factory, and a...

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The book was intended to be an account of a year's travels with Rob, her partner, but it evolved into a subtle blend of travelogue, recipe book and memoir. There is a nightmare press trip through Puglia that somehow manages to overlook the food; a tour of the US with her singing star son Harry; an over-ambitious yomp across the mountains of Southern France; and a chat with Julia Roberts, as the Most Famous Woman in the World feeds her twins. There is a nightmare press trip through Puglia...