Happy Thanksgiving: Eat & Enjoy
Most of the holidays today seem to revolve around food. The 4th of July: steaks, hamburgers, hot dogs or any food that can be barbequed; Easter: chocolate, hard-boiled eggs, ham, lamb and peeps; Labor Day: beer and buffalo wings; Veteran’s Day: parade food, like pretzels; Memorial Day: picnic salads; Mother’s Day, Valentines and Halloween: candy; New Year’s Eve: champagne, liquors and liqueurs.
Which brings us to the heavyweights of holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. While I would concede an argument could be made to include The 4th of July and Easter one cannot easily cook a pie, cake, or a 22-pound turkey on a grill.
Christmas is food-focused with cookies, eggnogs, Christmas dinner and treats for Santa, but like Easter it has not yet been subverted to total gastrointestinal pleasure. (Give Christmas 10 years and check back.)
Thanksgiving stands supreme as the only national holiday that awards karma points for the total weight of the main course and style points for side dishes and desserts (forget watermelon and cantaloupe 4th of July apologists, we’re talking real food here, like Boston crème pie, roll cake, apple and pumpkin pie).
Dig in. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, too. It does not carry the stress of Christmas or the obligation of Easter. Where satiating the senses with good food, unabashedly loosening one’s belt and belching are recognized as compliments to the cooks, I say, Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy.
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