Far-Flung Fling
December, 1967
Fortunately for all forward-looking hosts mapping out a food-and-drink party, the so-called shrinking would has steadily grown into a world without end. There was a time when every holiday menu was carefully meshed into old unchanging grooves: the roast gobbler with the chestnut stuffing, the doughty goose with the inevitable apples, the steamed plum pudding with the brandy. Four and twenty black-birds could sing only after they were baked under a conventional piecrust. Today, men who've feasted...