I'm In A Loft And

People Who Hardly Ever Cook At All, Suddenly At The Holidays, Feel Like It's Their Responsibility To Not Only Cook Dinner For Large Groups Of People Suddenly, But To Serve Things That Are Fussy Or Fancy Or Formal. And I Don't Think That's What Anybody Really Wants, Especially If You're Not Good At It.

Not To Sound Too Much Like Christopher Guest In 'waiting For Guffman,' But On Thanksgiving You're Putting On A Show!

For Each Episode The Five Of Us Are All Wearing Clothes By The Same Designer. It's A Different Designer For Each Episode, But For Each One We're All Wearing Their Clothes.

I Had A Little Epiphany When I Was A Writer At 'chicago' Magazine. I Sat Down To Dinner At The Ritz-carlton. Somebody Poured A White Dessert Wine With Chocolate Cake. It Was A Wine I Would Never Have Expected To Make Sense. The Idea Of Any Wine Tasting Fabulous With Chocolate Cake Was Fascinating To Me.

Cooking For People Is An Enormously Significant Expression Of Generosity And Soulfulness.