We are having a quiet Thanksgiving by
ourselves in New York as our daughters and their families are hosting their
husbands’ families in Sharon for the holiday weekend. Aaron posted a link to
his outdoor turkey cooker,
and I have the full 18-minute original 1967 recording of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice Restaurant” playing as I write this.
Later we will eat some of our favorites including bread “stuffing” with onions, celery, water chestnuts, and almonds, and whipped sweet potatoes made with maple syrup and sour cream.
One news item that definitely caught my attention in the past few days was news of food poisoning linked to consumption of romaine lettuce. While food poisoning is always distressing, particularly for such a wonderful food as romaine lettuce, it is helpful to see a bit of humor in it, and the following post showed up on numerous friends’ Facebook postings.
But here is a bit more sobering view of that romaine lettuce story.
Meanwhile, we have for many years used romaine lettuce as the “bitter herb” at our Passover Seder. I am hoping they will resolve this problem before then because I cannot see myself eating the alternative, horseradish root.
We went yesterday to see “Boy Erased,” a movie based on the true story of Jared Eamons (played by Lucas Hedges), a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality in an unaccepting environment. His parents, Nancy and Marshall (played by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe) are religious Christians not willing to accept this aspect of their son. Marshall, a Baptist minister, is particularly troubled by his son’s declaration and goes to great lengths to enroll him and keep him in conversion therapy. I am not sure how often this approach is still attempted, but from what I have read it was seldom if ever successful. The good news in this particular case is that Jared’s father eventually did come to some level of acceptance, so that the family has been able to maintain some sort of relationship, as we see in real life pictures that are shown during the credits.
Best wishes to all for a Happy Thanksgiving!
Love,
Rebecca
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