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Holidays in Movies: Thanksgiving

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Celebrating holidays in my house means media saturation. That is, leading up to Halloween we watch all the Halloween movies, and leading up to Christmas, we watch all the Christmas movies, specials, and television shows. But Halloween and Christmas aren’t the only holidays around which you can structure your movie viewing.

Garfield’s Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

  • Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982): immensely enjoyable take on the legend of the Chicken Ranch. If Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds aren’t enough to sell it to you, then the in depth study in eighties lingerie should do it.
  • Madman (1982): horror film taking place in a strange alternate reality where kids are sent off to a woodland camp for Thanksgiving break.
  • Turkey Hollow (2015): broken family forcing themselves on a grudgingly hospitable distant relative? check. Sibling discord healed by adventure and danger? check. Monsters in the woods? check. Turkeys? check check check check check.
  • Adams Family Values (1993): “Eat Me! Hey! It’s Thanksgiving day!”
  • Blood Rage (1987): “That’s not cranberry sauce.” And, bonus, this horror movie is located in good old Florida.
  • A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973): Charlie Brown is the holidays; any holiday.
  • Charlie Brown Mayflower Voyagers (1988): part of the ‘This is America, Charlie Brown” series, but tacked on to the ‘Peanuts Holiday Collection’ without any other episodes.
  • Garfield’s Thanksgiving (1989): I grew up on Garfield; I had merch; this is home for me.
  • Martha Stewart’s Classic Thanksgiving (2005): from the Martha’s Holidays collection, because it is necessary to have a couple of hours worth of instruction on making that turkey.

Holiday food

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Food is one of the primary ways that I celebrate the holidays and changing of the seasons. However, I cannot claim to be a truly seasonal eater.

I do find that having a dish that you make only once a year, or even once a month encourages me to forget. At which point I end up in a routine of making the same thing over and over. To help me get over this, I put together a holiday recipe zine a couple of years ago. It didn’t completely capture my repertoire at the time, and I have added dishes since, so this would be a good time to add to it, yeah? Perhaps I could expand it with my recipe series and my comic about cumin pumpkin.

The quintessential foods that whisper ‘holidays’ to me are:

  • Cumin roasted pumpkin which is such a devil to make, I drew a comic.
  • Kapusta, a warming cabbage stew that was always on the table at the Wilsey’s Christmas eve party, where my Dad took us every year.
  • Ginger bread, cake, cookies, whatever
  • Fruit cake
  • Stuffing because I never make it any other year
  • Green bean casserole, the canned way, but not with mushroom soup because that’s verboten in my house

What are your quintessential holiday foods?

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