Happy Thanksgiving!

[gin_tonic]

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! We don't celebrate it (I'm in Europe, yo) and yes, I did have to go to work today and will have do my Black Friday shopping online.

Thanksgiving is such a funny thing to me! It's not that I don't celebrate it that make me think it's funny, but rather that Thanksgiving seems to be the major cooking day in the US. Is that right?

For me, my cooking highlight of the year is Christmas. We have a big Christmas dinner and I start planning the menu in November (5-6 courses, usually). Every year I will ponder what to cook and how to make a fancy dinner, while Christmas in the US seems to be focussed on coziness and Thanksgiving is all about the food (your turkey, gravy, sweet potatoes and cranberyy sauce - I never had a Thanksgiving feast and I'd really like to!). Or did I get that wrong?

Anyway, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving - and best of luck doing your Black Friday shopping. ;)

Comments

[enchanted_jae]

Thanksgiving is ALL about the food (and loved ones, of course!), while Christmas is about the gifts (and loved ones, of course). Many people do plan large, elaborate meals for Christmas. We generally don't. Christmas Eve is our big family celebration, and it ends up being more casual fare, with lots of finger foods, rather than a big, sit-down meal like at Thanksgiving. Easter is also a big, sit-down meal, but it usually involves ham, rather than turkey. I think Christmas follows too fast on the heels of Thanksgiving for many people to want to prepare such a huge meal again.

:D

[gin_tonic]

Oh, thanks so much for the explanation! I didn't know Easter was such a big affair, too! We have bank holidays on Good Friday and Easter Monday and many celebrate it with a nice, festive lunch, too. In my family, it depends where everyone is at and it's definitely less formal. One year, we might spend Sunday with my boyfriend's family (usually at a restaurant) and Monday with ym family (usually with lunch cooked by my mother or me). The other year it's the other way around.