It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and my husband, our four year-old son, and I are coasting through the hills of rural Kentucky. Two days before, we’d driven from Brooklyn to Indiana to visit my family. Now we are en route to the Ark Encounter: a life-size recreation of Noah’s Ark, which happens to be nearby.
Alright pals, I have reviewed your entries, all of which look delectable. If I had participation trophies to distribute, you would each receive one. But of course, we can only have one Thanksgiving Leftover Sandwich champion.
In what’s become an age-old tradition, we here at Jezebel love to celebrate not necessarily the main meal of Thanksgiving weekend, but the secret, more important portion of the program: the sandwich that results from the leftover scraps of your feast.
Tomorrow brings the 90th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. But did you know this proud, family-friendly American tradition started out in a totally creepy and scary way?
This Thursday, folks across the country will indulge in one of America’s most enduring and self-satisfying traditions: the injuring of Native American people and the destruction of land for financial gain.
Something dark happened the day after Thanksgiving, and it wasn’t the realization that Black Friday is indeed a thing that people you love and care about might love and care about. In some households, still-very full individuals awoke to find that the band of teen boys attending their Thanksgiving dinner had thrown out…
It’s the day after Thanksgiving. You’re settling in to catch up on the blogs you missed while “spending quality time” with your family. Right next to you is a juicy pile of meat slapped between two pieces of rustic Italian loaf. Maybe there’s some lettuce on there. Maybe you went big and added some stuffing. There’s…
Via the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, here’s a family settling into Thanksgiving dinner in 1950.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Unfortunately for many of us, all of those deep fried turkey faces and iced gravy drums come at a price: having to spend time around that mangy group of creatures you call a family. But don’t fear, you shivering, nude snowflake: we’ve got you covered. Just follow our…
In a move that some might read as “bad luck,” or “jinxing it,” Republican presidential candidates Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson attempted the absolute most important task of any United States president: pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey. None were particularly good at it, which is fine, because none of…
After battling a nasty Staph infection for what felt like centuries, Khloe Kardashian is feeling much better and ready to enjoy the holidays. Tuesday night, the bravest Kardashian tweeted:
Don’t have all day to waste cooking a turkey this Thanksgiving? Try this trick from Chef Matt Griffin at Fedora: cook the turkey in a salt crust for a quick, juicy bird.
If you’re hosting the big, turkey-centric meal this Thursday, you may be experiencing some anxiety over how much food to serve. This calculator can help with that.
Another Saturday; another uneven Saturday Night Live. The Matthew McConaughey-hosted episode had a few funny moments including a parody of Fox & Friends, spoof auditions for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and a Thanksgiving-inspired sketch about the power of Adele.
Next week, people across the country will be struggling through airports, boarding crowded airplanes, and traveling to see their families and in-laws to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, of course, is a beautiful holiday that honors sharing, caring, taking things that don’t belong to you, and having your mom…
Instead of spending the holidays in unproductive political arguments with your loved ones, why not do some oral history interviews, instead?
Three days have passed since the internet discovered Patti LaBelle’s Walmart sweet potato pies, thanks to a man named James Wright. If you haven’t gotten a pie already, good luck, because social media is filled with photos of empty dessert displays. Why, Patti, why?
Every year you tell yourself, “I’m not spending Thanksgiving alone...” And then, lo and behold, no one invites you to their big dumb feast, your family lives out of state, and your vegan cousin who lives in town texts you that, uh, sorry there won’t be enough Stuffed Tofurky to go around but maybe you can come next…
The War on Christmas is ramping up: another large chain, H&M, plans to close its doors on one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
