My best buddy Jim is coming up Wednesday from NJ. We'll be having Thanksgiving with some cousins of his who live in Methuen, MA, not far from here. I will make a cheesecake.

Last year we did the same, and they had salmon as the main course. Perhaps that is the Greek Orthodox tradition %^).

Many years ago, I had Thanksgiving in the house of some old friends of the family. Roast beef was served, and our hostess, a schoolteacher, mentioned that she had confessed her heretical menu in class. Oooh, said one of the young people, they must have thought you were a Communist! That caused a dead silence around the table, because, as everyone else there knew, she was.