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Monday, November 24, 2008
Thanksgiving Ethnic Specialty Dishes
The famous research organization The NPD Group says that 90% of households hosting Thanksgiving meals will serve turkey. The most popular dishes supporting the turkey are pumpkin pie, potatoes of some kind, stuffing of some kind, vegetables of some kind, rolls of some kind, bread of some kind and salads of some kind.
"Of some kind" makes us think about the ways people incorporate their ethnic heritage into their Thanksgiving meals. According to surveys, most people prepare traditional Thanksgiving food items, like yams, in a way that's typical for their own family, and lots of others serve dishes that aren't traditionally associated with Thanksgiving.
Friends are Lifetime Mothers are reporting Thanksgiving dishes like beans and sopapilla (pinto beans with puffy savory pastries that serve as "bean holders" for messy little kids,) lasagna, fattoush (a Middle-Eastern salad,) and potato kugel (a Jewish potato dish.)
Our friends seem to especially love to serve breads that are special to their cultures, like tortilla, challah and julkage (a Nordic bread that is associated in Europe with Christmas.)
Please share your family's specialty dishes with us! What will appear on your table this year that you won't find on standard list of Thanksgiving foods?
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