{"id":1516,"date":"2010-11-23T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2010-11-23T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T21:36:16","slug":"a-modest-thanksgiving-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2010\/11\/23\/a-modest-thanksgiving-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"A modest Thanksgiving dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what are y&#8217;all having for Thanksgiving dinner? I&#8217;m taking my cue from <cite>&#8220;Aunt Babette&#8217;s&#8221; Cook Book: Foreign and domestic receipts for the household<\/cite>, a Gilded Age Jewish-American cookbook. The key to Thanksgiving is, you want to enjoy yourself &#8212; it&#8217;s a <em>feast<\/em>, after all &#8212; but you don&#8217;t want to overdo it and have guests stuck in the doorway like Winnie-the-Pooh until St. Lucia&#8217;s Day, and besides, you still have Christmas to go into debt over. <!--more--> This seems about right:<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure\"><a href=\"\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/babette_thanksgiving.jpg\"><img src=\"\/dw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/babette_thanksgiving.jpg\" alt=\"menu\" title=\"What? No Jello salad?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">From <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.msu.edu\/projects\/cookbooks\/html\/books\/book_41.cfm\">Aunt Babette&#8217;s Cook Book<\/a><\/cite> (Cincinnati: Block Pub. and Print Co., 1889), p. 495.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mmm, sweetbreads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what are y&#8217;all having for Thanksgiving dinner? I&#8217;m taking my cue from &#8220;Aunt Babette&#8217;s&#8221; Cook Book: Foreign and domestic receipts for the household, a Gilded Age Jewish-American cookbook. The key to Thanksgiving is, you want to enjoy yourself &#8212; it&#8217;s a feast, after all &#8212; but you don&#8217;t want to overdo it and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[180,489,369],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-os","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}