"What did you do for Thanksgiving?"
I got this question from a lot of my friends, and the answer is -- on Thursday, nothing really.
I told my students the (now deemed politically incorrect) story of the Pilgrims escaping religious persecution, traveling to New England, being totally unprepared for the hardships they would face and losing an incredibly high percentage of their population to sickness and cold, until the friendly local natives showed them how to plant crops, hunt for game, and basically how to survive... and then they had a big feast together after the harvest and we all lived happily ever after.
I also told them about watching parades with giant balloons in the morning, watching (American!) football in the afternoon, eating and drinking to the point of pain, perhaps playing cornhole, and waiting for the black Friday sales to commence.
So that was my Thursday.
But on Saturday, my friend Barbara and I cooked all day for a Belated Thanksgiving dinner attended by Americans, Italians, a German and a Brit.
We had turkey, dressing, greenbean casserole, creamed corn, cornbread, pumpkin pie -- all the heavy hitters were there!
It was fun and delicious!
Barbara has a giant kitchen... by Italian standards
