Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library Reader Advisory Blog: Thanksgiving Cookbooks

With the main event a little over a week away, NOW is the time to stop by and grab a Thanksgiving cookbook. Below you will find some of the most recent additions to our collection. See see a complete list of our Thanksgiving cookbooks, click here.

Thanksgiving: how to cook it well by Sam Sifton: Sifton, one of food's most celebrated writers, has created a start to finish guide to making Thanksgiving the best meal of the year.

The Harvest Table from Gooseberry Patch includes delicious recipes made from seasonal ingredients and lots of helpful tips.

Vegan for the Holidays by Zel Allen delivers delicious recipes that will be enjoed by vegans and carnivores alike for Thanksgiving through New Years.

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5

"Being Mortal is about the limitations of what modern medicine can provide for people as their lives draw to a close. Gawande argues that the objective of medicine should not merely be treatment and survival; medical care should also ensure dignity in death and having control over one's final moments. He argues that instead of aggressively fighting the inescapable realities of aging, we should ask the hard questions of ourselves and our loved ones -- What makes life worth living? When should we try to extend our lives, and when should we choose a better quality of our remaining days over extending their quantity?

This book is difficult to read. Not because of the way Gawande writes -- his style is highly engaging, and he never lapses into excessively scientific jargon or overly simplistic explanations -- but because of the tough subject matter. Gawande draws on his own experiences as a doctor and peppers his book with honest and humane stories of his patients, friends, and family; the stories he tells make the book more accessible, and also more heartbreaking. (And that's not a bad thing.)

No one likes to think about their loved ones', or their own, impending mortality. But it's important to have these hard conversations, because as Gawande says, "endings matter." - Amanda

Thanksgiving Cookbooks

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