"Does anyone know what Thanksgiving is?"
"Ehhh, you are thanks for giving?"
"Pavo!" (Turkey)
"Ehh, you eat?"
Obviously from several of my students' answers you can see that Spaniards know very little about why we celebrate Thanksgiving and what we do. Since it is one of the lesser known American holidays over here, I decided to give a presentation on the history of thanksgiving, the food we eat, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, Black Friday shopping, football, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and how we celebrate it in my house. They seemed to really enjoy it and were amazed at how much we prepare and eat on Thanksgiving--one site mentioned that about 46 million turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving day!
Thanksgiving is a huge holiday in the States and is always spent with your closest loved ones so we decided to have a friendsgiving here and share it with some Spanish friends who have never celebrated it before. We did it potluck style so we all cooked different dishes. For those who know me, I am the most basic chef so it was fun googling Thanksgiving dishes I could make. My friends had already called on making the turkey, mac and cheese, stuffing, mashed potatoes, salad, pumpkin pie, veggies, etc. so I decided to go with appetizer dishes and made spinach and artichoke dip and a sausage and sweet potato kabob with a lemon-garlic mayo sauce. One of my friends and I decided to prep some of the food the night before, and on the day of, we destroyed the kitchen with all of our cooking--it was a very American thanksgiving indeed as we stressed out because the turkey didn't even fit into my oven and some of the dishes weren't finished when guests arrived. It all turned out okay in the end as my neighbors let me use their oven and everyone was satisfied with the appetizers until the main food was ready. Our potluck Thanksgiving turned out really well and sweet potato veggie mix, nutella cake, empanadas, tuna pie, deviled eggs, and alot of wine were brought by our other friends and added to our Thanksgiving dinner menu. We had a great turnout at the end, about 20 people in total, and I was definitely uncomfortably full at the end. By the end of the night one Spanish friend held his stomach tight and said, "No puedo comer más," to which we replied, "Good, then you have experienced a true American thanksgiving."
Yours truly,
TLT
"Ehhh, you are thanks for giving?"
"Pavo!" (Turkey)
"Ehh, you eat?"
Obviously from several of my students' answers you can see that Spaniards know very little about why we celebrate Thanksgiving and what we do. Since it is one of the lesser known American holidays over here, I decided to give a presentation on the history of thanksgiving, the food we eat, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, Black Friday shopping, football, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and how we celebrate it in my house. They seemed to really enjoy it and were amazed at how much we prepare and eat on Thanksgiving--one site mentioned that about 46 million turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving day!
Thanksgiving is a huge holiday in the States and is always spent with your closest loved ones so we decided to have a friendsgiving here and share it with some Spanish friends who have never celebrated it before. We did it potluck style so we all cooked different dishes. For those who know me, I am the most basic chef so it was fun googling Thanksgiving dishes I could make. My friends had already called on making the turkey, mac and cheese, stuffing, mashed potatoes, salad, pumpkin pie, veggies, etc. so I decided to go with appetizer dishes and made spinach and artichoke dip and a sausage and sweet potato kabob with a lemon-garlic mayo sauce. One of my friends and I decided to prep some of the food the night before, and on the day of, we destroyed the kitchen with all of our cooking--it was a very American thanksgiving indeed as we stressed out because the turkey didn't even fit into my oven and some of the dishes weren't finished when guests arrived. It all turned out okay in the end as my neighbors let me use their oven and everyone was satisfied with the appetizers until the main food was ready. Our potluck Thanksgiving turned out really well and sweet potato veggie mix, nutella cake, empanadas, tuna pie, deviled eggs, and alot of wine were brought by our other friends and added to our Thanksgiving dinner menu. We had a great turnout at the end, about 20 people in total, and I was definitely uncomfortably full at the end. By the end of the night one Spanish friend held his stomach tight and said, "No puedo comer más," to which we replied, "Good, then you have experienced a true American thanksgiving."
Yours truly,
TLT