Colten Barrett Comp II 9/5/2012 Dr. Smith Thanksgiving Dinner Thanksgiving is a holiday filled with feasting, joy, bonding and memories. My family along with millions of other American families every year, come together to celebrate everything that we have been grateful for throughout the year. We celebrate by feasting on some of our most savored dishes; some dishes happen to be a family tradition and are served at every Thanksgiving. Every year my family celebrates Thanksgiving at my grandma and grandpa’s house. By the time every one gets to Grandma’s house, the house is already filling up with fabulous smells of pie, meat, and other wonderful foods and to top it off the smell of fresh cut grass blowing in for the opened windows throughout the house.
Dumas stated, “Displaying the hospitality that Iranians so cherish, my father extended a dinner invitation to everyone who called”(321). “As a result, we found ourselves feeding dozens of people every weekend”(Dumas 321). Her mom intended dinner starting on Monday for the next weekend. Since she didn’t drive, her husband took her shopping every Tuesday for all the provisions she needed for the dinner. Availability and freshness of food and herbs determined how long the shopping trip would be.
The most important times with my family are the holidays and special occasions spent together as a group. Aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and great-grandparents all gather together at one of our homes in celebration of Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the new year, birthdays, and graduations. We always have an abundance of dishes steaming with decadent food, such as my grandmom’s homemade macaroni and cheese. My mom usually fixes her sweet party punch: a mixture of Hawaiian punch, sprite, and sherbet. We gather around, eating, opening gifts, talking and laughing.
I watched Star Wars with my brother -Dave- for the first time one Christmas and from then on we were both hooked. Star Wars on telly at Christmas became our tradition. It was the only thing that was predictable and good; amongst the instability of our family home. It enabled us to escape into our imaginations and to dream about ‘how great life would be’, if the imagination became a reality. Even thinking about Star Wars
Angela Caputo Thanksgiving Writing Lab “Stand up straighter! Smile! Don’t squint!” At this point, I’m used to the orders being barked and can barely feel my lips from smiling so widely, let alone see with the blinding flashes from the yearly family portraits going off. So I know to do whatever it takes to end the pre-Thanksgiving dinner photo fest. Our family is all dressed up, and I can smell the evening’s food rooms away and hear the ending sounds of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on the TV downstairs.
Sometimes, we can smell a fall fire in the air as we approach our destination. For these reasons I’ve stated, not only do we get to enjoy our friends and family along the way, but we can embrace all that is fall on our walk to Whitey’s. The relationship between taste and emotion is clear; Whitey’s pumpkin flavored ice cream is probably the best ice cream in the QCA. I understand that some may not like the flavor of pumpkin but, if given a try you may just be converted like me. This ice cream is so good that Whitey’s has it’s own website, you can view the menu and order ice cream online from anywhere in the
My mother would cook for myself, my dad and my siblings on some weekends. The most important condiment that would go on top of our pancakes was King’s syrup. It was an inquired taste that grew on me. As I became a young woman and had three beautiful children I would still buy King’s syrup for any food that needed that thick maple syrup taste. It is now 2013 and it
Every year late in November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving; a holiday which one is thankful for the house they live in, clothes on their back, food on their plate and family who love them dearly. However, this famous holiday which only happens once a year started over four-thousand years ago with the Indians and Pilgrims. Most of us remember learning about Thanksgiving in grade school; the Pilgrims and Indians sitting down together enjoying a big feast and giving thanks for everything they had. However, in August 1620 before America was a colony, the Pilgrims set sail to find land for the New World landing in Plymouth, near Cape Cod. The Pilgrims had made it to the Massachusetts Bay!
Thanksgiving is a time when the house can come truly alive. Every member of the family comes together to eat and enjoy the turkey dinner. The true meaning of Thanks giving can be found in any family history and lives in our hearts as a fundamental tradition. Merriam-Websters Dictionary version of Thanksgiving Day is “a day appointed for giving thanks for divine goodness”(Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary.com). The Encylopedia Britanica defines Thanksgiving Day as an “annual national holiday in the United States and
I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen George Balanchine’s Nutcracker, but I can tell you it will never get old, and always be a tradition that I look forward to every year during Christmas time. Whether I am in a company performing it, or sitting in the crowd with my children I have some day, it will always be a tradition I appreciate fully. We all know what the ballet is about so I don’t really need to go over that, but I will go over a couple of my favorite moments in this particular show I attended. In the ‘candy cane dance’ Jermel Johnson performs his outstanding number with his fellow children candy canes, which I performed with him at