Thanksgiving C.E.O.S?

I have mentioned in this space that Thanksgiving is a time that more than others makes me glad that I am not a full-time food writer. The meal is the same every year. The turkey* becomes the scrim for projecting family pathologies no brine could ever wash away, etcetera, etcetera. So it's a challenge to come up with new angles. I get that. However, there is still no reason, in 2008, to run an article called "The CEO of Thanksgiving Dinner." In case you have been caught up in Twilight hype, just now, the economy looks like the bottom of a Porta-Potti in Lee Circle on Ash Wednesday.** On the front page of the very same newspaper was news that "the Federal Reserve and the Treasury announced $800 billion in new lending programs on Tuesday, sending a message that they would print as much money as needed to revive the nation’s crippled banking system."
The hook of the article seems to be to promote one of those books they have at airports to sell to desperate, lonely middle managers, but it really seems tacky just now to valorize the CEO as the epitome of what you need to run Thanksgiving smoothly.

You want to run Thanksgiving like a real CEO? Wait for your whole clan to assemble, tell them there's nothing for them to eat, then take the babysitter to Per Se. Seriously, Kim, WTF?

*It's like this dog.
**Not pretty, in other words.

Comments

[Master Chef]

Its a great theme, "Thanksgiving CEO's" Its a best title.

Jessica