After Mumbai Tragedy, A Bites Poster Needs Your Help With Thanksgiving in December

Rudrani Devi and Santos Lopez at a Mumbai hospital, h/t cookeatFRET

From the week we launched Bites last year, Santos Lopez has been one of our favorite posters, a suave wisecracker, formidable connoisseur and unabashed sensualist with a soft spot for Latin cinema and the ladies—especially his wife, Rudrani Devi, known to his friends as "the beloved."

From Claudia at cookeatFRET, we received the horrible news that Rudrani was among those shot in last week's terrorist attack on the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai.

Excerpted after the jump is Claudia's post, along with a special request for the very best Thanksgiving recipes you have. The reason will make you reconsider how much we all have to be thankful for, and how much we take those things for granted. We wish Santos, Rudrani and their families a holiday of indomitable love, and above all, peace.