"Next week could be one of the biggest Thanksgivings ever."
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The earliest Thanksgivings were bigger lasted longer than today's events.
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Will Trump's claims of a war on Thanksgivings have legs?
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The two families have shared many moments: graduations, weddings, Thanksgivings, funerals.
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Bonnie Jenkins, the general manager, has worked 20 Thanksgivings at Keens.
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Seven Thanksgivings ago, I got sick and I never got better.
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Thanksgivings blur together for me—and last year, I did overnight shifts.
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Hold the mashed potatoes, though: There weren't any at the first Thanksgivings.
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All we get is awkward Thanksgivings for the rest of our lives.
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She and her mother spent Thanksgivings with the fashion photographer Bruce Weber.
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Here's a look at some of Trump's most memorable tweets from Thanksgivings past.
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In later Thanksgivings, the white family members ate in an entirely different room.
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Dench says Hinton has an open invitation to all future Thanksgivings at her home.
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" This escapes the radio host, who merrily responds, "Well, no two Thanksgivings are alike.
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Some Thanksgivings, they visited him on his corner; he refused entreaties to accept help.
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" They predicted that: "A Grand National Thanksgiving is hereafter to supersede the state Thanksgivings.
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It wasn't one of those Thanksgivings where you stay and play football all day.
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But let's be real—most Thanksgivings are unlikely to turn into a CNN panel discussion.
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The memories banked during this trip could carry us through Thanksgivings and Christmases to come.
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New Girl has seen multiple Thanksgivings come and go since its first season premiered in 2011.
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But no one had a bigger "Thanksgivings" than the family's tweenage member, Tess Pearson (Eris Baker).
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"I think all Thanksgivings for a family has this element of awkwardness to it," Dunne jokes.
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The golden, crispy-skinned turkeys you remember from Thanksgivings past aren't as hard as you think.
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I like to cook and have family over, and I lost two Thanksgivings and two Christmases.
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At these later Thanksgivings, there were a lot of forced smiles, a lot of awkward nodding.
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The Thanksgivings got smaller and smaller, leaving behind the elderly Koreans and the young white kids.
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I've had enough Thanksgivings with these folks to know that my special day could end in ruination.
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"I've had 19 Thanksgivings and Christmases since my husband died," she wrote in a piece for Time.
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And, if you've been asked to bring a dish, here are some recipe ideas for potluck Thanksgivings.
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For the last six Thanksgivings, Devon has helped a local group give food baskets to the needy.
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I dated a vegetarian for eight Thanksgivings, and my brother has been pescetarian for the past few.
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The nominees gave us a preview of our family Thanksgivings next month and just talked over each other.
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This has been a hit at every Thanksgiving I have gone too or thrown, including many Dirtybird Thanksgivings.
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The moment I saw the turkey from season five, "The One With all the Thanksgivings," I started laughing.
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Those were my first Thanksgivings as a proper adult decoupled from the family I'd left 3,000 miles away.
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Rather, I realized that my youthful Thanksgivings past were perfection, and I should not attempt to duplicate them.
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Almost every time we do this, I think about how we got here — how Thanksgivings turned into this.
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Tuesday night's This Is Us, "Six Thanksgivings," marked a few landmark events for multiple folks in the Pearson orbit.
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They had long invited Epstein, a onetime boyfriend of Eva Dubin who remained a family friend, to their Thanksgivings.
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The last 15 Thanksgivings have always included big bouquets of pink roses and baby's breath sprinkled throughout the house.
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This year, the show is back with "Six Thanksgivings," which showcases six very different Turkey Day celebrations over various timelines.
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The father of one has kept scrapbooks from past Thanksgivings and invites guests to write down what they're thankful for.
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Our Thanksgivings still may not be as swanky, but we can enjoy our fill of a little star-studded stuffing.
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New Englanders certainly celebrated Thanksgivings—often in both fall and spring—but they were of the fasting-and-prayer variety.
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The Obama family also spent some Thanksgivings volunteering at shelters and serving food to the homeless and at-risk veterans.
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He says he wants to be around for 50 more Thanksgivings, which would make him quite the elderly man by then.
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Tess' announcement arrives towards the end of "Thanksgivings," which was directed by Catherine Hardwicke of Thirteen and original Twilight movie fame.
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President George W. Bush spent his Thanksgivings in office at both Camp David and his Crawford, Texas, ranch with his family.
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I missed six Thanksgivings and one Christmas, spending the holidays at work, American-themed bars and, once, an Enrique Iglesias concert.
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I've spent enough Mother's Days (and Father's Days and Christmases and Thanksgivings) worked up about my screwed-up relationship with my family.
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For the last couple of Thanksgivings, however, I've been up in Rhode Island with my wife, so we haven't really gone home.
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A few Thanksgivings later, goaded by the cheery encouragements of supermarket specials (I am inordinately excited by these), I decided to try again.
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"It ruined a lot of Thanksgivings and Christmases," said Peter Logan, an 18-year resident who was out walking his three dogs last week.
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Somali residents spend Thanksgivings and Halloweens in the houses of lifelong Garden City families, and they welcome their non-Somali neighbors over for Muslim holidays.
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At the end of our Thanksgivings, my great-uncle would pat me on the back and give me a bag full of bones and gizzards.
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It all started 51 Thanksgivings ago — that's 51 years ago on Thanksgiving — when folk singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie was busted for littering in Great Barrington, Mass.
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It reminds me of all the Mother's Days, birthdays, Thanksgivings, and Christmases I've spent without her and will have to spend without her in the future.
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In college, I hosted "orphan Thanksgivings," for those of us who didn't have enough money to fly home to be with our families for the holiday.
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There was never any alcohol at my Thanksgiving because my mom and dad didn't drink, so our Thanksgivings were fairly uneventful—no crazy fights or anything.
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"Everyone with a special diet brings what they like and host provides the 'traditional' staples," wrote Margaret Torres Parish, who hosts potluck Thanksgivings at her home.
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The show ran for 10 years -- and in that decade, we got to see Joey, Rachel, Ross, Phoebe, Monica, and Chandler share lots of Thanksgivings together.
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There was also lots of wine, and so by the time our friends showed up, they were also plowed because they had all gone to other Thanksgivings, too.
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It could mean more Christmases and Thanksgivings in which children get to know their grandparents and hear stories of what their parents were like when they were young.
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Dry ciders hark back to the Thanksgivings of the earliest days of the country, and after many decades of being ignored, good cider is now on the rebound.
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But no matter what exotic dishes define future Thanksgivings on the Moon, or Mars, or in deep space, one hopes that the core values of the season supercede them.
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Our future Thanksgivings may include mealworm pie, cockroach relish, and roasted grasshoppers with green beans, as climate change and a swelling population makes meat more expensive and environmentally unsustainable.
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The Times is collecting stories about Thanksgivings spent in war zones over the last 18 years that the United States has been involved in the global war on terror.
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Dan Storley, 55, has spent about half a dozen Thanksgivings working in the firehouse, and he has missed eating with his family, especially as his parents have gotten older.
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It was another few years before I trusted myself to try again, or maybe I selfishly wanted a couple more Thanksgivings with guaranteed perfect macaroni and cheese before I stepped up.
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In "Thanksgiving," however, she's the centerpiece, as the episode follows multiple Thanksgivings in her household (all with Dev) from her childhood to present day, as well as her elongated coming-out process.
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"Pretty soon, you're going to have your first kiss and your first boyfriend," Tess's aunt Kate Pearson (Chrissy Metz) said to her during the "Six Thanksgivings" episode, which aired back in November.
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Her parents then invited me for the next two Thanksgivings as well, and they invited me long after we had graduated because I made excellent gravy and they had never learned how.
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He lost a toe many Thanksgivings ago when he was a bone-headed college student who took an interest in her after she lost weight and the two are now secretly dating.
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I'd done two Thanksgivings that day, one in LA with my mom and brother, one after driving two hours to Palm Springs with my nephew to my dad's rented apartment in the desert.
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President Barack Obama opted to spend most Thanksgivings with his family in their upstairs residence at the White House, where Obama's favorite dessert -- pie -- was always abundant, in at least six different flavors.
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"The One With All the Thanksgivings" (Season 5, Episode 8) This episode's famous scene of Monica dancing with a turkey on her head has been commemorated through everything from T-shirts to GIFs.
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I have spent many Thanksgivings overseas: as a boy growing up in London, as a Marine deployed to battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, and later as a writer living with my children in Istanbul.
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But season 5's fowl-fest is loaded with fun flashbacks as the gang shares stories about their worst-ever Thanksgivings, and also moves Monica and Chandler's budding romance forward at the same time.
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But far from being forgotten, the tradition was resurrected and hailed by the seven Atlantis crew members as "'one of the best Thanksgivings" they had ever had, according to a contemporary Los Angeles Times article.
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Christmases, Thanksgivings, Fourths of July—all were commemorated by weekends of parties, dinners, and barbecues that were attended by every member of my extended family from first cousins to my great aunt's weird third husband.
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WATCH: Khloé Kardashian Says Her 'Pregnancy Has Been Healthy and Strong' In addition, Cleveland has quickly become Kardashian's home away from home as she has previously celebrated birthdays, Thanksgivings and Christmases there instead of Calabasas.
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In adulthood, one of the funniest Thanksgivings I ever had was before my wife and I moved to New York to open Mission Chinese Food and Mission Cantina, when we were still in San Francisco.
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If oyster ice cream made only one authentic appearance in American culinary history—in Mary Rudolph's cookbook—then why all the speculation about oyster ice cream being a true American dessert served at early Thanksgivings?
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In the form below, tell us about the challenges you faced spending the holiday away from home, memories from Thanksgivings at war, the meals you enjoyed and the fellow troops with whom you shared them.
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The hilarious charade in the season 5 episode titled "The One with All the Thanksgivings" prompts Chandler to accidentally tell Monica that he loves her for the first time ever — and the rest is history.
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Shuttle astronauts Fred Gregory and Story Musgrave earned the distinction of being the first people to celebrate two Thanksgivings in space, in 1989 and 1991, which further cemented the tradition of observing festive occasions beyond the planet.
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We like to teach one another that Thanksgiving is about a celebration of unity despite our differences, but in reality, Thanksgivings historically gave rise to more conflict and even violence committed against Native Americans by English colonizers.
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Yes, I remember the new open layout, but that version doesn't compete with my memories of Thanksgivings spent in our cozy dining room, with my mother walking through the swinging door from the kitchen carrying hot serving platters.
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And Thanksgivings typically seen in the movies usually take the form of nightmarish family confrontations, like the awkward sexual experimentation seen in The Ice Storm and The House of Yes, or the bitter resentment of Scent of a Woman.
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In case anyone is wondering how Miguel and Rebecca were at two Thanksgivings that may have seemed far apart, I was curious too — Alpine, NJ (Randall's house) and Scarsdale, NY (Miguel's daughter's house) are actually quite close to one another.
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Picking a the best one is like picking a favorite child, but certainly the most iconic Thanksgiving episode is "The One With All the Thanksgivings," in which the gang reminisces about the worst things that have happened to them on the holiday.
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Where to watch: Hulu Lorelai and Rory attend four Thanksgivings; they make nice with the Gilmores, scarf down some tofurkey at the Kims', drop in on Luke and Jess at the diner, and witness Jackson deep fry a turkey as Sookie watches in horror.
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I also wish I'd thought to see if my parents would be welcome and would have liked to come — they get on really well with my in-laws (thirteen joint Thanksgivings and counting) and I think they would have liked being part of a family reunion.
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Aziz Ansari and Lena Waithe cowrote the episode, which follows the Thanksgivings their characters have shared together since childhood, and offers a moving history of Waithe's character, Denise, coming to terms with her own sexuality and eventually coming out to her mother (played by Angela Bassett), who gradually grows to accept her daughter.
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When Mr. Bitsoie was recruited for his new job, he was working as the chef at the Fire Rock Casino in Gallup, N.M. He had made a name for himself as a hotel chef and traveling lecturer speaking about native cuisine, devising menus for Thanksgivings at Native American museums in the West and Southwest.
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But while we almost selected the structurally daring "New York, I Love You" for this list, "Thanksgiving" won the spot with its portrayal of an entire life — that of Denise, played by co-writer Lena Waithe — through a series of Thanksgivings in which she and her family (including the incomparable Angela Bassett as her mother) grappled with her sexuality.
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Not only did friends of theirs live upstairs and downstairs, but he and his ex-boyfriend hosted, on average, two large events a month: dinners; Halloween, Christmas, Memorial Day and Oscar night parties; New Year's potlucks; Passovers and Thanksgivings; impromptu gatherings with anywhere between five and 40 people; friends' engagement and birthday parties; bridal and baby showers.
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Even if Master of None has elements that can grate, its willingness to do just about anything to make a great episode of television — from leaving its protagonists behind entirely for a series of vignettes about service industry workers to crafting an episode that spans more than two decades of Thanksgivings as one character comes to terms with her sexuality — marks it as a big, generous, open-hearted show.
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Especially interesting about Mike's affair is that, in a nation legalizing Mary Jane faster than Hunter S. Thompson could drive from LA to Vegas while chewing an adrenal gland, it foretells of Thanksgivings Future: You may not be having a lit turkey dinner with the in-laws yet, but you might soon, because the sharpest minds behind the business of selling cannabis to the masses are shrewdly enacting a food-centered marketing strategy.
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To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
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To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
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Stream some famous Thanksgiving episodes, all available on Netflix: "Friends" (Season 5, Episode 8), in which the gang reminisces about its worst Thanksgivings ever; "The West Wing" (Season 2, Episode 8), in which C. J. has to decide which of two turkeys to pardon; "Gilmore Girls" (Season 3, Episode 9), in which Lorelai drags Rory to four holiday meals; "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Season 4, Episode 8), in which Buffy's celebration is accompanied by a haunting; and "How I Met Your Mother" (Season 3, Episode 9), in which Marshall and Lily host their first Thanksgiving, and Barney waits for a slap.
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