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Volume 16, Issue 45 - November 6 - November 12, 2008
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Columns |
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The Thanksgiving Feast: Beyond the Basics, We Make America’s Holiday Our Own Thanksgiving dinner is served out of the great American melting pot. While tracing hand turkeys on construction paper, we imbibed the traditions of the great Pilgrim feast. So committed are we to turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie that we must have sworn long-forgotten cross-my-heart oaths to make them the staples of Thanksgiving forever and ever. • But sometime between then and now, my heart swelled with thanks for my own identity. So there are icons at my Thanksgiving table beyond idealized pilgrims and ceramic turkey salt and pepper shakers. Nowadays, I prepare my feast to honor my culture, family and mother as well as the great American ethos we all share, whether our roots are in Italy, Ireland, Africa or Indonesia. • Is it not the same for you? |
Like my mother, I am not at my culinary best as a pie maker. Is crumbling dough and tough crust my fate? I know what a good pie should be. I just haven’t made one, yet. This Thanksgiving, I vowed to try again. And try early.
For 26 weeks, we’ve feasted on fresh, local food. |
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