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 Getting Our Just Desserts
If
you turn to page 26, you’ll find a very helpful piece about six fab
desserts that will be perfect on this year’s holiday tables — I dare
you to find one that disappoints. But to get to those six, the American Way
staff, along with a few others who happened to wander by at the
appropriate moments, tried more than a dozen desserts over roughly a
three-week period. When we dreamed up this story, everyone was excited
about all of the delectables that would be ours for the tasting on any
given day. And when the first ones arrived, we were suitably excited
and ravenous.
We sampled lots of sweets that were yummy, but we
also sampled plenty that were beautiful yet tasteless and some that
were not only tasteless but also lacking in curb appeal.
Then
something happened that I never would have predicted (keep in mind:
There is absolutely no category of food that can be put out around here
that won’t be gone in a matter of hours). By day seven, the
announcement of the arrival of each new dessert was greeted with a few
moans and groans.
People were slow to waddle out of their
offices for a sample and even slower to offer up their critique of the
desserts. The sugar buzz we’d been on the previous week took a nasty
turn.
Add to that the fact that we decided to have a cookie
bake-off (you’ll see the results in our November 15 issue), which
required a sampling and ranking of 25 different cookies. The lack of
tasting enthusiasm was hard to swallow (every pun intended).
But
we all knew what we had signed up to do and knew it was our job to
bring you the best of the best. So even though we really don’t care if
we ever see another dessert again (at least not until Thanksgiving), we
give these treats the Tastebud Seal of Approval. (A hint to the
ultimate hostess: We won’t breathe a word if you transfer these
desserts to your own special serving plates and tell everyone you made
them all on your own — I’m personally claiming that apple pie as mine,
all mine.)
On another sweet note, while you still have time to
order these treats, you are running out of time to place your vote for
this year’s road warrior. The entries of the five finalists are posted
at AmericanWayMag.com. All you need to do (before November 14 at 11:59
p.m. Central time) is to click on the Vote Now for Your Favorite Road Warrior MVP link to take a look at the entries and decide how to rank them.
This
may be the only chance you ever have to influence the outcome of our
crazily popular Road Warrior contest, so don’t put off doing it.
Even
if you didn’t make it as one of this year’s finalists, don’t let that
bitterness keep you from casting a vote for your favorite fellow
traveler. There are lots of friends, families, and coworkers out there
who are going to attempt to tip the scales. So we need you, the true,
unbiased road warrior, to weigh in with your opinion on who is best.
And
if we can’t lure you with a sense of duty, perhaps the chance to win
25,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles will do the trick.
So
order a few holiday treats and place the road warriors in the order of
your choice to ensure that everyone gets their just desserts this year
(yeah, I crack myself up).
Sherri Gulczynski Burns
Editor
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