Happy Thanksgiving, Canadian readers! May your meals this weekend be immensely satisfying. Here is this week’s list of Thanksgiving-related blog posts and other links from my favourite corners of the web.
Are Potatoes Good for You? Thanksgiving is one of those meals when I don’t worry about the nutritional content of my dinner in any way. I think it can be healthy to eat food based solely on how much pleasure it gives you every once in a while. With that being said, this was still a fascinating look at the latest research on how potatoes affect the human body. Spoiler alert! Depending on how they’re prepared, they can be very good for you as a regular part of one’s diet.
Literary Thanksgiving via CandyKorman. Star Trek and other pieces of hopeful science fiction set in the future are my literary thanksgiving. What’s yours?
A Case for Canned Cranberry Sauce: Defending Thanksgiving’s Most Controversial Side Dish. Yesterday I made fresh cranberry sauce for the first time and learned that I do not like the homemade version of this dish at all. This came as a bit of surprise to me since I don’t mind the canned version. How do you all feel about cranberry sauce?
Is Thanksgiving Trying to Kill Me? via Austin_Hodgens. If you have ambivalent feelings about this holiday, go read this post.
Vintage Photo Tuesday-Celebrating Thanksgiving Part 2. There’s something so interesting to me about seeing the way previous generations celebrated various holidays. The photo that had a table full of desserts was my favourite one. Either they were meant to serve a very large family or the person who made them really loved desserts! Either way, they looked amazing.
How to Make Thanksgiving Top-12 Allergen Free and Fun for All! This is such great advice. My Thanksgiving dinner is going to be completely dairy-free as usual, and I’m going to try to keep soy out of the equation as well this year. I can only imagine how complicated meal planning would be for groups of people who have multiple allergies or food intolerances.
Egyptian Pumpkin Pie with Almond Creme Bechamel via onearabvegan. Ooh, this sounds good. I’ve never met a pumpkin pie I didn’t like.
Thanksgiving Feast. Humans might not be the only ones having a feast today.
From Dumbkin via StuartRWest:
You know what I found out recently?
My mom won’t pay for a can of pumpkin because it costs more than the price of tea in China.