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Thanksgiving Preparations
I’m excited about Thanksgiving this year although it will be a challenge. Last year I had Mama help me cook and she enlisted her two daughters. This year we are inviting some co-workers. There are no Americans here currently so I really want to do it right to give them a taste of what Thanksgiving dinner is like.
I found on www.allrecipes.com, one of my favorite all time websites, a couple sample Thanksgiving menus and then plans of action underneath each. This is brilliant! I was wondering if I could do a few things ahead of time and it seems I can. I’m still working on creating my own menu though. It depends on what I can make with what is available here.
The turkey will be iffy too. There is a man here with live turkeys. Do we really want to go there? Jonathan says yes. I say yes too if he handles it from bird to table. 
Gobble, gobble.
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November 4th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
When I was a graduate student at Cornell (1971-74), my wife and I decided to host a crowd of foreign students to a Thanksgiving dinner. Of course, they had no family in the area and would not celebrate Thanksgiving anyway.
We cooked a 20 pound plus turkey in our tiny oven.
We made heaps of yams, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, etc. etc. We had quite a few guests (10?) Each brought a bottle of wine as their contribution to the meal.
It was an excellent dinner, but the tastes were too strange for our guests. They took small portions and nibbled enough to be polite.
So we had a huge amount of leftovers. We were too poor to just throw it all away, so we wound up eating the same meal every day for more than a week (oh yeah, multiple pumpkin pies as well!)
It was a while before I wanted to eat that stuff again!
So don’t be hurt if your guests are not wildly enthusiastic about the meal. Turkey etc. is apparently an acquired taste