Happy Thanksgiving!

With a view of the root cellar

Happy Thanksgiving readers! What a time to be alive, eh? I am very happy to be with family today. It is a balmy 17F outside, with a high of about 25F.

Many thanks to all the folks who have restacked my posts of late, it has been a period of abundance for me in that regard. Welcome new subscribers! I am deeply grateful for all my readers, and I hope you find yourself in a good place, with good people and joyful conversation.

An old acquaintance of mine, Sean Sherman, the Sioux Chef, recently said we should get rid of Thanksgiving, and replace it with “truthsgiving”. Sean found something like 30million in philanthropy to build his fancy restaurant on the bank of the Mississippi in downtown Minneapolis - if today is to be about truthsgiving. He might instead reflect on his privileged colonization of that high-dollar real-estate that might have been more inclusively used to elevate the unhoused or trans. Or at least be grateful for all those white liberals who eat his food and keep his restaurant afloat. But then he probably has to say shit like that too keep those wealthy liberals patronizing his work. Whatever the case, his cookbook is worth buying. I’ve never eaten at his restaurant. I probably will, once, the next time I am visiting family in Minneapolis.

My root cellar is not so fancy. I built it myself with my own money. It is not so attractive as Owamni, but I’m not complaining. I even think Sean would appreciate it. I am quite thrilled to be flush with potatoes, carrots, cabbages, squash and canned goods, going into this winter. The stuff has been in there for about a month, everything seems in good shape except the brussels, which are drying out. I am going to have to process them all soon. The cabbages might not look great but we just made some cole slaw and the cabbage was much better than store-bought. The first carrot I pulled out went bad, but the second is in great shape.

Thank you again for reading…and watching. Have a great Thanksgiving.