
{"id":4095,"date":"2008-11-25T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T21:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2008-11-26T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T05:57:03","slug":"a-no-calamity-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/11\/25\/a-no-calamity-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"A no-calamity Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/billsmith092508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/billsmith092508-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Ava Barlow. Crook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bill Smith\" title=\"billsmith092508\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/billsmith092508-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/billsmith092508.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><strong>Margot Carmichael Lester<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It may seem natural for a chef to adore Thanksgiving, but for Bill Smith, chef of Crook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner, his love for the holiday isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really about the food. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thanksgiving\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my favorite holiday because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s based around a dinner party and you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about gifts,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he laughs. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The pressure of gift shopping is an enormous hassle that spoils Christmas, if you ask me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThanksgiving for Smith, author of Seasoned in the South: Recipes from Crook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner and from Home, is spent down on the coast in New Bern with 45 or 50 family members convening at his parent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home. <\/p>\n<p>And, surprisingly enough, Smith is not in charge of the victuals. Instead, his people divvy up the duties, which keeps any one person from getting stressed out and lessens the opportunity for those pesky chain-reaction culinary catastrophes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great cook. He does a ham or turkey and he likes to make the collards,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If <\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make the mashed potatoes, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make instant, so I took that over a few years ago. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the only one who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not scared to make gravy. Oh, and I bring a case of beer. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nHis mother gets the premises ready to receive the guests, and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles bring sides. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone has their thing they bring every year, which is what you want at Thanksgiving,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he adds. <\/p>\n<p>And here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the real genius behind a Smith family Thanksgiving: People trickle in all afternoon. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a formal thing where people sit down at a particular time and say grace,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So it works out good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He thinks on that for a minute and adds, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never had any real calamities.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margot Carmichael Lester It may seem natural for a chef to adore Thanksgiving, but for Bill Smith, chef of Crook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner, his love for the holiday isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really about the food. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thanksgiving\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my favorite holiday because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s based around a dinner party and you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about gifts,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he laughs. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The pressure of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-mill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}