"I have to say I'm a traditionalist for Thanksgiving. I think that I might do sweet potatoes a different way for Thanksgiving. I might do them with sautéed apples for the grownups and marshmallows for the kids, but I don't think Thanksgiving is the time for unusual things. When I had a specialty food store, people would come in, and they'd say, 'I'd like sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving.' And I'd say: 'Well, we make them this way. How would you like them?' And they would go, 'I want them the way my mother made them.'"