post-holiday

Since I've been away from the Internets the past several days due to the holidays I missed out on some interesting and tasty pre-Thanksgiving food writing. But in hopes of being prepared for next year (or perhaps just Christmas)I'll link them soon enougy.

Last week at a Thanksgiving dinner held the Tuesday before Kate and I were waiting greedily and hungrily around the buffet talking about the food with two of the usual suspects--Jewish, Harvard-educated guys around our age. Holiday food, we all agreed, was excellent. Like Christmas, Kate and I added. One of the guys said it was better than Christmas since it doesn't have the religion. This started several seconds of awkward silence.

I wanted to add that I'm from the West Coast and several close friends of mine from Jewish families had Christmas trees galore during the holidays. But I don't think people from the East Coast understand the whole Christmas-as-secular-holiday thing.