Linda Cardillo survived three months in a hotel room in a foreign country with two kids, a hot plate and one pot before her family moved into a house in a small German village just before Christmas. She emerged from the packing boxes not only to find her turkey platter but also to write this story for her children. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novels Dancing on Sunday Afternoons and Across the Table as well as novellas and short stories. A graduate of Tufts University with a degree in American literature, she also earned an MBA at Harvard Business School at a time when on...