Kris Jenner Dishes Thanksgiving Dinner Survival Secrets: Polish Your Hermes China Turkey Plates! [Video]
If you’ve set a goal of Keeping Up with the Kardashians for Thanksgiving, Kris Jenner wants to help. After years of orchestrating elaborate family feasts, the Kardashian “momager” has created a set of traditional turkey day survival tips, reported People magazine.
The first tip focuses on setting the mood. Kris urges you to choose the music for cooking as the primary task. If your family and friends tend to avoid you when you’re cooking, Jenner says that to follow her rules, you should invite them all into your kitchen.
“My family gathers and comes through. My kitchen is really where everybody visits all day long,” she declares.
In addition to visiting in the kitchen, the Kardashian family Thanksgiving tradition revolves around tweeting, as shown in the video.
And although Eater reports that she’s famous for hiring a personal chef to cook the Kardashian family meals, Kris emphasizes table settings and scenery rather than actual cooking in her tips for survival. In fact, according to her second tip, the fun comes from focusing on tableware.
“My tableware changes from year to year and I think that’s what makes it so much fun because you don’t know what to expect. I have turkey plates from Williams-Sonoma and I have Hermes china. I really depends on my mood. Do I want to do a casual country Thanksgiving or should I do a formal, super dressy dinner?”
Now if you’re thinking that shining the spotlight on platters and party dresses sort of misses the point of the Thanksgiving feast, Jenner is also the author of a new cookbook, In The Kitchen with Kris: A Kollection of Kardashian-Jenner Family Favorites. As the Inquisitr pointed out, however, reviewers skewered the “kollection” for its inedible recipes and awkward writing.
The cookbook currently has one-and-a-half stars out of a possible five on Amazon, with some reviewers pointing out that offering recipes for Cream of Wheat does qualify as a cookbook. Even Kris Jenner fans apparently couldn’t think of positive feedback, as shown below.
1.0 out of 5 stars Appallingly Bad (and I’m a Kris Jenner fan!)
Appallingly bad! It begins with a Cream of Wheat “recipe” that states:
“1. Follow cooking instructions on box for two servings.”
… and the nauseating step 6:
“6. Serve warm—and with love”
Are you kidding me? Did an 18 year old assistant who can’t cook write this garbage? It’s clear that the book is a rush job with unimaginative and uninspiring, boring recipes and she couldn’t even bother with including decent photographs. And how creepy is it to include a recipe of Nicole Brown Simpson?
It took me 25 minutes to read and I know I’ll never make any of this bland food. You can just tell that this book will be selling en mass for a penny under the “used books” section of Amazon in a few months.
However, despite the bad reviews of her cookbook, Jenner points out that Thanksgiving feasting doesn’t necessarily require a lot of cooking.
“If you’re a first-time entertainer, concentrate on the turkey — it’s the star of the show,” advises Kris. “And if you don’t have time to bake a pie, order one from a great bakery.”
But if you spend enough time on the table settings, theorizes Jenner, you don’t even have to worry about real food.
“I set my table four days in advance. It takes me that long to get it just right, layering the different decorations, adding and taking away things until I can stand back and say, ‘Yes, that’s it.'”
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