Coffee-Bar

Here’s what actually happens after Thanksgiving dinner: fifteen people migrate to the kitchen at once. Someone wants coffee. Someone else is hunting for the pie server. A third person is asking where the whipped cream is while standing directly in front of it. The cook, who has been on their feet for six hours, is now trapped behind a wall of well-meaning relatives. The fix is embarrassingly simple: move dessert OUT of the kitchen. A thanksgiving coffee and dessert bar — set up on a sideboard, a console table, even a card table in the dining room — pulls the entire after-dinner crowd out of your workspace and gives them somewhere to gather that isn’t blocking the dishwasher. ...