When your plates remind you of vacations in Basque region, Paris, Biarritz or short trips there, might be perfect gift for friends who lived there or more prosaically are a nice prop to add theater to your dessert, you have a winner. These travel themed plates (14 Euros a piece) and others (Surf, Escarpins, etc) are Beatrice Pene creations at Assiettes et Compagnie in France. Thanks to Pascale Weeks of C'est moi qui l'ai fait...

To get over your Turkey hangover, here's a recipe from Japanese Soul Cooking(Ten Speed Press, November 2013) by Tadashi Ono who recently opened Maison O in New York and Harris Salat of comfort food restaurant Ganso in Brooklyn and The Japanese Food Report... KANI ANKAKE (CRAB FRIED RICE) With this dish, the fried rice is cooked very simply, with just eggs and scallions. The mojo here comes in the form of the ankake, which is...