The Funny Thing About Thanksgiving ,or Any

People Who Hardly Ever Cook At All, Suddenly At The Holidays, Feel Like It's Their Responsibility To Not Only Cook Dinner For Large Groups Of People Suddenly, But To Serve Things That Are Fussy Or Fancy Or Formal. And I Don't Think That's What Anybody Really Wants, Especially If You're Not Good At It.

However, I Was A Restaurant Critic At Chicago Magazine Before I Worked At Esquire, And I've Been A Really Enthusiastic Home Cook For A Long Time. It's Just Something I'm Passionate About.

The Funny Thing About Thanksgiving ,or Any Big Meal, Is That You Spend 12 Hours Shopping For It Then Go Home And Cook,chop,braise And Blanch. Then It's Gone In 20 Minutes And Everybody Lies Around Sortof In A Sugar Coma And Then It Takes 4 Hours To Clean It Up.

Queer Eye For The Straight Guy Is A Form Of Service Journalism. To Be Successful, I Think It Has To Be A Combination Of A Good Story, It Has To Be Funny, And It Also Needs To Be Packed With Useful Information.

I Had A Little Epiphany When I Was A Writer At 'chicago' Magazine. I Sat Down To Dinner At The Ritz-carlton. Somebody Poured A White Dessert Wine With Chocolate Cake. It Was A Wine I Would Never Have Expected To Make Sense. The Idea Of Any Wine Tasting Fabulous With Chocolate Cake Was Fascinating To Me.