Have you ever tried to celebrate a festival, dear to your heart, in an environment where no one else is celebrating it? I thought I was used to it, having lived in countries that didn’t celebrate Christmas. Thanksgiving is always more difficult. I celebrate it because North American Thanksgivings are the only national holidays I… Continue reading Thanksgiving Week
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The Magnificent Clash of Cultures
“Miss Judy, will you come on Thursday to share our bread and salt, as we say?” “Oh, thank you for the invitation. I would love to come. But bread and salt are all I will share, because in the evening we Americans have our Thanksgiving celebration, with a big feast.” “Good. We normally do not… Continue reading The Magnificent Clash of Cultures
American Thanksgiving in a Non American Country
Well, we had roast turkey, sausages, gravy, apple-celery-bacon cornbread stuffing with cashews and cranberries, Amish sweet potatoes with apple and mace, mashed potatoes, squash with crystallised ginger, green beans almondine, broccoli, cranberry-orange relish, the obligatory creamed onions (which, I understand, is an Upstate New York addition), and mince-peach pie, apple-cherry pie, and of course, pumpkin… Continue reading American Thanksgiving in a Non American Country
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