We're about a month too early with this post - it's not even Thanksgiving yet! But this morning a few Saveur-subscribing readers emailed me to tell me that they'd just received the December issue. So I thought I'd share a story. I should give you a Smarm Alert - Danger, sentimentality ahead! Ten years ago we were living in Shanghai, where Dave was managing the office of his employer, a San Francisco-based trading company, and I was doing research for a dissertation on pre-Revolution rural tax protests (that's not as dry a topic as it sounds), commuting to Nanjing and its massive archives during the week. One of my most memorable meals from ... read more