Dear Feastlings,
Rarely if ever have I been compared to a football player, but Thursday night, a pleasant PA at TMC’s emergency department, one who repeatedly addressed me as “my guy,” told me I was just like Jalen Hurts, whom I’ve since looked up. It turns out that, like Jalen Hurts, quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, I have a blood clot in my leg that, were I a quarterback, would merit my taking the rest of the season off. Not sure if he still brings in tens of millions of dollars while he sits out the next few months, but I’d reckon his insurance is better than mine, and covers some sort of lost income due to injury. I, on the other hand, have been donning a fashionable pair of compression socks, taking blood thinner and Tylenol against the advice of RFK, Jr., and coughing up an $800 copay for my trip to the ER. Which, I suppose, is better than coughing up fluid from a lung if a clot breaks loose. Still, quarterback sounds pretty good right now.
I join the ranks of the walking wounded at Feast, with one prep cook still out with a broken wrist and kneecap from being thumped by a car as she walked across a parking lot, and one just returned after an end-over-end ATV accident that took her out for a week beyond the vacation she was on when she chose the stuntwoman lifestyle.
All of the aforementioned mentioned, I have to say that once I get moving, the leg doesn’t hurt as much as it did last week, and with the one prepcook back, we’re in decent shape to execute our Thanksgiving menu, which will enable you to pick up Thanksgiving food with heating instructions on Wednesday the 25th so you can hang out with your loved ones on Thanksgiving proper. The caveat: you must order by Saturday the 21st- after all, we need time to prepare it all once it’s been ordered. Here’s the menu:
We’ll also host our weekly wine tasting, this one a second attempt at a Marlow Provisions Trust Your Importer tasting with Felix Stepski, proprietor/importer who was waylaid on I-10 last time we tried to have him down here for a tasting. My prediction: Second time’s a charm, and Felix is a charmer, and so are his wines (and olive oils and salts and other goodies.)
We also look forward to a benefit dinner themed “Ebenezer’s Feast,” a benefit for the Rogue Theatre following their production of a one-man “A Christmas Carol” on Sunday, December 6th- you can attend the show at the Rogue and then trot over to Feast for the dinner. Tickets must be purchased through the Rogue, though:
https://www.theroguetheatre.org/buy-tickets
And yes, it says that the last day to buy tickets was November 8th, but I know a guy. We can extend it to this Friday if you’d like to join in the festivities. There’s more to come- there’ll be a Christmas carryout menu and a special New Year’s Eve menu, plus a dinner with Pride Mountain Vineyards in January, and we continue to bring meals to GAP ministries when we can, and we appreciate the help of those of you who choose to donate some of those meals.
We’ll limp into action in the coming weeks to make your holidays special, and we’re grateful for you every minute.
Love,
Doug