A Place Like This

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  • Feasting

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    Valarie Budayr
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    We cooked for two days. Ruth , Susie, and I did our usual "day before Thanksgiving" cooking marathon. It's a good thing we cooked so much because a whole bunch of hungry people showed up. As the time of feasting approached everyone took their usual preparatory places. Barry carved the turkey. Larry mashed the potatoes.…

  • Feast from the Middle Sea

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Before we were even married my sweet man from Lebanon had to endure the traditional meal of Thanksgiving. I say endure because I had never cooked a Thanksgiving meal in my life. We were living in Switzerland and I had become quite close to the little village I was living in and decided to cook…