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Laurie Notaro Has Herself a Meaty Little Christmas

By Laurie Notaro

Dec 2, 2016

Humor writer Laurie Notaro recalls the first time her then-boyfriend dined at her parents' home on Christmas Eve. It was a meaty affair.

Christmas, Family Style

By Katie Johnson

Dec 25, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. Growing up in a family that has had as much divorce and remarriage as...

The Ungrateful Child: A Christmas Tale

By Deborah H. Sussman

Dec 25, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. The Christmas after I graduated from college, I was living, if you can call...

Dreaming of an Eggs Benedict Christmas

By Josh Chesler

Dec 24, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. For the first 15 years of my life, the holidays were always an uncomfortable...

Christmas Turkey Trot

By Judith Nichols

Dec 24, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. The Kellers, like most people in Winifred, Kansas, in the 1940s, grew their own...

Steak on Fry Bread and the Winslow Christmas Parade

By Sativa Peterson

Dec 23, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. I'd been talking up my hometown's Christmas Parade for years. After all, it was...

Ingrate Pie

By Julie Peterson

Dec 22, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. People are fiercely attached to their concept of Christmas food. Violate that notion, and...

Outback Tonight

By Jason P. Woodbury

Dec 19, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. My grandma is tired, she explains, and this Christmas it's going to be real...

Zest for Life

By Becky Bartkowski

Dec 18, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. Being a type-A psycho, I approach Christmas the same way a warlord might hope...

Glue Christmas

By Robrt L. Pela

Dec 17, 2014

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. We've all seen them: Magazine photos of expertly iced Santa cookies, leaning jauntily against...

Eating Christmas: Tonight, Dec. 16, at Crescent Ballroom -- True Stories, Hanukkah Lights and Burritos

By Amy Silverman

Dec 16, 2014

Tonight's the night! Head downtown at 7 to Crescent Ballroom to hear some of the Valley's best writers bite down on the holidays, in the form of "Eating Christmas" -- our third annual Christmas/Food mash-up. We'll even light the menorah in honor of the first night of Hanukkah. Here's the...

Eating Christmas: Chow Bella's Third Annual Holiday Literary Event Goes Down Dec. 16 at Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix

By Amy Silverman

Dec 4, 2014

Hey, what are you doing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 16? Wrong answer. You're heading downtown to Crescent Ballroom to hear some of the Valley's best writers bite down on the holidays, in the form of "Eating Christmas" -- our third annual Christmas/Food mash-up. Here's the lineup:...

A Gherkin Christmas for This Girl

By Becky Bartkowski

Dec 25, 2013

Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays -- in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. I am a Midwestern transplant in a southern elementary school. I am 7. It's nearing Christmas, and I have a school...

Carrots & Milk & a Merry Christmas to All

By Brandon Huigens

Dec 25, 2013

Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays -- in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy...

Smuggled Sugar Packets and the Art of Compromise

By Phoenix New Times Staff

Dec 24, 2013

Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays -- in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. By Ada Malcioln Martin A product of divorced parents, a crazy Jewish Panamanian dad, and a bi-polar Anglican mom of West...

Grandma's Contraband Christmas Cookies

By Jason P. Woodbury

Dec 23, 2013

Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays -- in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. When my mother and father divorced in 1990, lots of things changed, but not Christmas. Christmas was divided up before the...

Kisha's Jalapeno Poppers: The One Essential Ingredient for a Merry Christmas

By Phoenix New Times Staff

Dec 22, 2013

Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays -- in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. By Sativa Peterson When I was a teenager I once risked the wrath of my mother by boldly declaring that I...

A Merry Un-American Christmas

By Deborah H. Sussman

Dec 21, 2013

Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays -- in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. At around the age of 7, I began to notice that the way we celebrated Christmas was odd. Un-American. For starters,...

I'll Be Home(Made) for Christmas

By Cynthia Clark Harvey

Dec 20, 2013

Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays -- in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy...

Nobody Messes with the High Priestess

By Kim Porter

Dec 20, 2013

Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays -- in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. My friend Shawn struggles to make sense of the ham that sits in a tin-foil tray on the buffet table. "Would...

Eating Christmas

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