Holiday Champagne Cocktails

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By Andrew Hunter
For The Family Table, a blog for busy families

Champagne, “Come quickly, I’m drinking stars!” said Dom Perignon, the monk who’s given credit for putting the sparkle in wine. We all owe this gent a debt of gratitude for the hard work in figuring out how to capture joyous bubbles. But his life couldn’t have been all work and no play, drinking his fermented mistakes.

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A Ghost in My House

By Lori Powell

With a chill in the air and goblins on their way, I welcome fall!

Candy, although alluring in their tiny packets, are not my big craving so I am safe from temptation, at least for this holiday. My Halloween pleasure would be a devil’s food cupcake or a hunk of brownie, instead.

My house is one of many in my neighborhood that is part of a ghost walk this weekend. I made the ghost A-list due to spooky stories about the prior tenant and my own personal pleasure at hearing him (but not, thankfully, the pleasure of meeting him) in the night.

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