Comments on: Most memorable meals, take three: giving thanks

By: Heather and Martin

Heather and Martin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:21:39 +0000

The essentials: turkey, homemade cornbread/sausage dressing, homemade cranberry sauce, lettuce, and mayo (LOTS of mayo – on both slices) on homemade oatmeal bread. We've already run shockingly low on leftover turkey, dressing, and cranberry sauce, though, and all the oatmeal bread is gone. Maybe Heather will take pity on me and make more.

Hope y'all had a wonderful holiday!

By: Brad Kik

Brad Kik — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:07:09 +0000

Please post a follow up on the platonic ideal of the turkey sandwich. Mayo on both slices of bread, I suspect.

By: Heather and Martin

Heather and Martin — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:31:32 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, guys; something else for me to be thankful for! And, Kurt, you're no slouch in the writing department yourself.

By: Janis

Janis — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:14:04 +0000

Glad to know that you and yours had a good "full-filling" Thanksgiving at the beautiful Madrono Ranch. I love stories about meals and stories shared over meals. We had Hart home — and some good "how to make a pie" counseling calls with Kate, who was feasting away from home with friends in Boulder. Here's to more fulfilling columns from you and Heather! Janis

By: Kurt Weist

Kurt Weist — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:49:07 +0000

At least eight Burdicks plus the orphans, so at least a dozen. The main course, as I recall, was a turkey raised by the Burdicks. After the incredible meal, we all gathered in the living room for good old fashioned conversation, with no football on TV or other distractions.

I, too, fear that I did not mind my manners back in the day. But Martin (referred to below as "Marty") prompted me to send a very belated note of thanks to the Burdicks shortly before Thanksgiving in 1997. It began:

Dear Burdick Clan:

Among his many talents, my ex-roomie from Mark Hopkins House, Marty Kohout, has a way with words. I remember reading a paper he had written senior year and thinking, “He said more in a two pages than I could say in twenty.”

Marty has struck again, this time with his line in the Alumni Review that “Thanksgiving dinner chez Burdick is still the standard by which I measure holiday feasts.” I thought that you should know that Marty is not alone. Your generosity, and the sense of belonging and togetherness that infused those occasions, will forever remain goals of mine, and they will always be part of my notion of “blessings.”

By: Ellen Jockusch

Ellen Jockusch — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:26:00 +0000

I love this, Mardin.

By: Bo Townsend

Bo Townsend — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:36:55 +0000

You didn't have to cook a pig and talk about it but you did… and I thank you. Nothing like Sam and Dave and memories of roasting pork.

By: Tinky

Tinky — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:00:36 +0000

I'm a sucker for memories of meals, and you touched me again with this one, Martin! Enjoy the leftovers….