Tag: Thanksgiving
1934, turkey shoot at the Elysian Park Police Academy — that’s the first image. The second image was taken at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown L.A. — as chefs prepared Thanksgiving dinner. I remember once when my family was living overseas scoring a turkey (which was hard to come by)…
Holy Moly! I do believe I have found the Thanksgiving Apple Pie I’ve been looking for all my life. Thanks to Erin McDowell and one of my favorite cooking blogs: This filling is tart, but with a rich creaminess to it, because it’s finished with butter. It’s sweet, but not…
This isn’t an adaptation, it’s verbatim from one of my favorite cookbooks. I can’t recommend it highly enough, and of course if you click on the title at the end of the post you will be whisked away to Amazon 😉 . Dark Molasses Gingerbread Cake This is the best…
Mary Grant Price was a costume designer on Broadway – Vincent Price studied art and art history before becoming an actor in the 1930s – between them they had quite a gracious design-lifestyle-thing going on… Under the Mission cross on the fireplace our houseman, Harry Mullen, ladles Café Brûlot for…