Feeling hot and cold about the holidays

These warm & cold appetizers are useful whether you're celebrating or bowing out

I don’t know what’s in the air, but among people I know, more than usual are either bowing out of celebrating the holidays, or keeping them low-key. Of course, plenty of others are plunging in as usual.

This past Thanksgiving, I decided to bow out for various reasons. In the midst of recovering from a bunch of things, all I wanted to go out for Thai foo…