The folks at The New York Times have created the Thanksgiving-erator, a nifty and cleanly-designed interactive tool for preparing your Thanksgiving menu.

You can choose from seven different menu philosophies (from modernist to colonialist to baconist). Based on your choices in each category, the tool will put together a list of recipes for your main course, stuffing, sides, dessert and beverage.

Try it out and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

My favorite street economists explore the curious parallels between the rising price of subway fares and pizza slices in NYC.

Some other examples of their field work:

• Vend diagram – NYC street vendors affected by the recession
• Checkmate – “America’s most valuable resource…is poor people. Poor people with checks.”
• Bodega – Quarter water and the yellow food group
• Ghetto Big Mac – Remixing the dollar menu

Highlights of this fall – visiting our nephew in Valencia, habaneres and “burnt rum” at a neighborhood festival, Rachmaninov and Dvorak at the Palau de la Música, and an expat Thanksgiving with new friends. Life is good.