Americans associate Thanksgiving with the cooperation between the Native Americans and European settlers back in the 1600s but it was finally declared a national holiday in 1941. Today it is characterized by turkey dinners, football games and parades.
We participated in the former (turkey) along with many other superb dishes - ham, candied carrots, mashed potato, salad, stuffing, cranberry sauce, followed by pumpkin and apple pie with whipped cream - pictured above, with good friends. Bear in mind all that food was for two families - 9 people - one of which was a baby. Below is a picture of the bird - the preferred choice of Benjamin Franklin for America's national symbol - after we had eaten from it.
I forgot to ask how many pounds this turkey was; at any rate a large one.
Eliot came home from college/university this morning so he was able to join us as well. He brought two pies with him that he had baked this week as part of a Sigma Chi activity, the fraternity that he is a member of. Their organization spent all day baking around 100 Thanksgiving pies - pumpkin, strawberry/rhubarb, apple, cherry, apple crumb, peach, blueberry - as a fundraiser at a bakery. If Eliot isn't successful in obtaining his undergraduate degree next year then there is definite hope for him as a pastry chef.
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