Do you have last-minute Thanksgiving questions? Go to my Facebook page for the Live Stream Q & A from earlier today! I’ll be checking all day to answer your questions about Thanksgiving. Thank you all who participated. Happy Thanksgiving!!
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Get Thanksgiving Day Logistics Under Control: Chef Sara Moulton preps for the day so everything unfolds seamlessly, from a cooking timetable to plans to occupy children,” Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan interviewed me about my strategies for ensuring a stress-free Thanksgiving Day in the…
My one hour holiday special, “Surviving Thanksgiving with Sara Moulton” will start airing on public TV this week around the country. Check the schedule of your local Public Television station to find out when the Thanksgiving Special will be aired in your neighborhood. Here are all the recipes: Apple Nutmeg Bites…
A viewer e-mailed me that he had recently had homemade fresh cranberry sauce at a holiday dinner and loved it. He added that he hadn’t known that it was something you could make at home and wondered how to do it. Homemade cranberry sauce is actually a very simple recipe. It is…
I just took a river cruise in Provence with The Husband for our 35th Wedding Anniversary and it turned out to be the perfect way to celebrate the occasion. Come along as we explore this area of France and discover some amazing food. Day One: Hello From Lyon Yesterday marked the…
Spent the day in Avignon, a medieval city surrounded by stone walls. For 70 years during the 14th Century, it displaced Rome as the papal seat of the Catholic Church. Today it is a modern city of rare charm, perhaps best known to outsiders as the home of the…
Arles was our final destination. Best known as the inspiration for the several hundred canvases Van Gogh painted there in 1888 and 1889, this small city is sunny, cozy, and colorful. Indeed, parts of it are unchanged since Van Gogh’s day and on the morning we visited we were duly…
Yesterday, after a quick walk in Lyon in search of cough drops for The Husband (he’s fighting a cold, poor guy), we came back to the ship for lunch. The centerpiece was the most delicious garlic soup. It was garnished with chopped hard-cooked egg white and caramelized garlic chips. It…
The river took us today to the mountain town of Tournon Sur Rhone, where we boarded a locomotive straight out of “Death Valley Days” and chugged off into the mountains surrounding the Doux River. This is rugged country – wine country — green, rocky, and utterly beautiful. The air was…
Got up bright and early to check out Vienne, a perfect little gem of a city, population 30,000, whose roots go back to the Roman era. Two thousand years later, one of its enduring attractions is the Temple of Augustus and Livia, a magnificent ruin in the center of…