A Big, Beautiful Seafood Pasta

In this week’s New York Times, Dan Pelosi (a.k.a. @grossypelosi) writes about the Feast of the Seven Fishes, that multicourse seafood dinner served in Italian American households on Christmas Eve. The classic menu serves up seven different fishes in seven different dishes, but Mr. Pelosi has recalculated the math to subtract the drama that making…

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A Frugal Exploration of Christmas Markets Along the Rhine River

In Strasbourg, France, throughout the holiday season, Santa-capped teddy bears festoon a restaurant’s facade. Stuffed polar bears adorn another. In a Yuletide arms race, buildings are affixed with giant, gift-wrapped packages, glittering white deer and oversize gingerbread men. Turning the central medieval quarter into a Christmas maze, curtains of lights glow above cobblestone lanes lined…

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