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Chef Scott Wall worked 18 years in a popular downtown Walnut Creek American restaurant. Chatting with him last week about his food pairings for the quarterly Dante Robere wine club, he asked about Thanksgiving plans and then shared about his restaurant days.
They’d prepare 80 turkeys starting by breaking them down and boning them (imagine boning a turkey drumstick which they did and kept it attached to the thigh. They then bound them together essentially in a dark meat roast, brined them and cooked on Thursday, The mini-roast was sliced into rounds for serving.
He’s so happy he established his own catering business. We love his creativity when developing the pairings for Dante Robere’s wide range of red wines including many Rhone-based blends.
In a local representation of what we saw nationally with Kamala Harris badly trailing Joe Biden performance in key battleground states, we saw the same thing in the recall election of soon-to-be ex-District Attorney Pamela Price.
The unqualified sole practitioner through East Bay groups allied by her vision of justice reform band together to give her the win. It went completely south quickly with well-funded recall opponents easily gathering the necessary signatures.
The Chronicle compiled a telling precinct-by-precinct map that showed 10 or more point swings. Voters left no doubt.
Remember the pre-internet days when people lined up outside of retailers in the wee hours of the morning to hit the doorbusters Black Friday deals? A few retailers tried opening on Thanksgiving but stepped away. Then it became Black Friday all Thanksgiving Week and now, thanks to the Internet, Black November.
Presumably that done to maintain or increase market share. It’s also changed the holiday season in-store with less need for temporary help. That’s required for the delivery companies.
Donald Trump connects with rank-and-file workers like no other billionaire I’ve ever seen. I think it comes from his practice during his development career when he would visit job sites. He’d talk with the bosses and superintendents, but also wander through the site talking with the rank-and-file blue collar workers.
That’s built a connection that continues to this day—consider that the Teamsters, a Democrat stronghold, did not endorse because about two-thirds of their members favored Trump
