Deborah YaffeNov 23RootsAs my family and our guests gather around our Thanksgiving table today, the menu will include a roasted carrot salad discovered in a...
Deborah YaffeNov 26, 2020Sauce for the gooseLike many of us in the Age of COVID, I’ll be hosting an unusually small Thanksgiving party tonight – just the four members of my...
Deborah YaffeNov 28, 2019Family dinnerAs we sit down to our turkey tonight, perhaps in company with relatives or acquaintances whom we carefully avoid the rest of the year,...
Deborah YaffeNov 22, 2018Saint CharlotteThanksgiving Day may seem to be a holiday with no connection whatsoever to the works of Jane Austen. True, her major novels include the...
Deborah YaffeNov 23, 2017Pie and prejudiceThanksgiving Day is upon us once again, and once again it’s time to search the works of Jane Austen – who, as an Englishwoman who never...
Deborah YaffeNov 24, 2016Giving thanksIn her fiction, Jane Austen was acutely aware that the duty of gratitude can sometimes be weaponized: think of Sir Thomas Bertram...
Deborah YaffeNov 26, 2015Pass the potatoesFor last year’s Thanksgiving Day blog, I amused myself by searching out Austen references to turkey. (As it happens, there are two – one...
Deborah YaffeNov 27, 2014Gobble, gobbleAs I contemplated my holiday cooking earlier this week, I found myself wondering whether Jane Austen ever mentions The Bird – our...
Deborah YaffeNov 28, 2013Giving thanks for Jane AustenAs a concept, gratitude is important to Jane Austen: Elizabeth feels it for Darcy when she learns what he's done for Lydia; Sir Thomas...
