Festival food

Fed up with turkey? Looking for something a little bit different to put on the table this Thanksgiving?

You might want to try Stuffed Aussie. Angie Shultz has the recipe.

Though personally, if you're going to eat an Antipodean, I'd recommend the New Zealand variety - they're not so tough.

Slavery days

Listen:

"My name is Fountain Hughes. I was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. My grandfather belong to Thomas Jefferson."

Fountain's story and others are available in an online anthology of American slave narratives at the University of Virginia.

In Remembrance

Anthem for Doomed Youth

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

Wilfred Owen 1893-1918