As a Brit, it seems strange that I've so fully embraced Thanksgiving. In Britain we have the harvest festival, usually just at school where everyone would bring in fruit or vegetables to eat. My dad would always make a wheat sheaf from bread dough which would be a big hit. When I got older he started to let me make it myself. I always loved the little mouse that he would include, running through the wheat. (I know mum and dad have a picture somewhere...) Thanksgiving is an excuse for a big turkey meal, that's the truth of it. Apart from Thanksgiving and Christmas, I wonder how many people actually roast a whole turkey on a regular basis, turkey farmers maybe? Or, maybe the turkeys are too busy with the process of being fattened up for these two particular days.
