A Few of My Favorite Things: November 14

Here are a few things that caught my eye this past week.

With Thanksgiving only two weeks away, one of my favorites this week is the Thanksgiving playlist on Spotify put together by my friends and co-workers Lydia McMillan and Elizabeth Hyndman. This Thanksgiving soundtrack, featuring classical, Christian, and Pop music, will definitely get you in the mood for the holiday. You can bet this will be playing in my kitchen while I prepare the turkey and all the trimmings come November 27.

AP Stylebook’s editors gave tips on how to correctly write about the festivities in their November Twitter chat. Here are a few highlights:

  • When talking about kitchen prep, correct AP style is to say foil, not aluminum foil or tin foil.
  • You’ll want to roll out your pie dough on waxed paper, not wax paper. Line your baking sheets with kitchen parchment, not parchment paper.
  • Stuffing or dressing? If it’s stuffed in the bird, call it stuffing. If it’s cooked on the side, call it dressing.

Fast Company had an article that re-imagined famous Disney princesses with normal waistlines.

In a recent set of illustrations, artist Loryn Brantz gave the princesses a little reverse plastic surgery. Here, she’s sketched for us what Elsa, Ariel, Pocahontas, and the rest of the Disney princess crew would look like with realistic waistlines.

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