On this eve of mandatory serious eating, many of the good folks at SE World HQ are about to go into serious cooking mode. It should go without saying that Managing Culinary Director Kenji López-Alt is cooking a whole mess of his flawless Thanksgiving creations for his wife Adri, friends, and family in Montana. (But don't worry—if somehow the answers to your Thanksgiving questions aren't on this page, you can reach him on Twitter @thefoodlab.) SE's Managing Editor Maggie Hoffman will be putting the finishing touches on a family gathering at her in-laws' place in picturesque Clifton, Virginia, and my wife and I are cooking for eight in New York, including our son Will, visiting from Los Angeles, and SE's former Nasty Bits columnist Chichi Wang.
As you can imagine, it's always frenetic this time of year at the office—think fried and spatcocked turkeys times ten! So as we wind down our efforts on the site for the next few days and scatter like wind-blown dried stuffing crumbs for the holiday, I wanted to take a moment to wish our ever-growing Serious Eats community the happiest of Thanksgivings.
As the Serious Eats overlord I have much to be thankful for: an astoundingly talented and hard-working crew of staffers, including the remarkable SE editorial team: Kenji, Maggie, Daniel Gritzer, Max Falkowitz, Niki Achitoff-Gray, and Vicky Wasik; our unflappable designer/developer duo of Tracie Lee and Paul Cline; our amazing crew on the business side, revenue honcho Jim Lehnhoff and the extraordinary Leandra Palermo, Chrissie Lamond, Sebastian Mei, Ben Fishner, and Leang Chaing; plus our newest team member, Chief Content Officer and General Manager Chris Mohney; our current crop of interns: Emilia Morano-Williams, Lily Freedman, Marj Berman, Lisa Starikov; our far-flung contributors from across the globe.
Most of all, I am thankful to our growing community—the millions of serious eaters from around the world who continually amaze me with their passion, discernment, and welcoming spirit. Happy Thanksgiving, Serious Eaters.
We hope your Thanksgiving is filled with people and food and drink you love, with more than a side order of laughter and good cheer. Not to mention lots of stuffing.