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Gourmet Magazine 1983 – A Southwestern Thanksgiving

The November 1983 issue of Gourmet Magazine had two different menus for Thanksgiving dinner.  The first one I’ve already posted here and it was for an alternative Thanksgiving dinner.  In that menu the featured course was cod.
The second menu features turkey for the main course, but with a Southwestern twist.  Here is what the editors [...]

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Planning Thanksgiving Dinner

Last night, Jeffrey, Mom, and I sat around the kitchen table looking at 25 vintage November issues from Gourmet Magazine. Jeffrey does the cooking at our house and was interested in trying some new things for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner.
We came up with some very interesting new dishes to try.
We were given a very large [...]

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November 1983 Gourmet Magazine – An Alternative Thanksgiving

This Menu and the accompanying recipes are from the November 1983 Gourmet Magazine article titled *Cuisine Courante – An Alternative Thanksgiving*. Here is the introduction:
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YES — we know turkey is traditional. And if Mom had ever tried to serve anything else (with the possible exception of country ham) we’d have shrieked.
Times have changed, however, [...]

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Our Family Fruit Cake Recipe

Here is our family Fruit Cake recipe, courtesy of Cousin Kate.
Rather than put it in the form I usually use here at The Armchair Chef, I have simply cut and pasted the email Kate sent … to let you enjoy her wonderful sense of humor! Can you see why she is one of my [...]

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Holiday Bake Along – Needlework and Quilting

For the next several weeks, I will be featuring Holiday recipes from Quilting and Needlework Professionals!I am incredibly excited about it and can tell you that the recipes LOOK scrumptious! Each recipe is accompanied by a reminiscence about the recipe and

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