Re: Thanksgiving Streetwise

11/18/09 - posted by Tim Dineen

My great Aunts lived at 335 Buckingham Way, Apt 504.

What a blast we had running up and down the stairs, dropping bottles down the garbage chute and hearing them clank all the way down... (The only time we kids fought over who was taking the trash out!)

Since moving east, Thanksgiving has become *our* holiday, and we do a spread for about 20 of my partner's family. But we use my great aunt's china - mixed with my grandmother's china - and while we make it all from scratch (including the same sort of dressing comprised of every imaginable baked good) we have one can of Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce in the same cut glass bowl that has graced every holiday table in my lifetime - and lord knows how many before.

Tradition is a good thing.