As a food lover, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. There's no pressure to buy greeting cards, no costumes, no weird hidden agendas or twists on the "real" meaning; it's just a holiday where we get together with the ones we love to feast and give thanks. That's it. Of course, it wasn't always that simple. For ten years I was a vegetarian, and Thanksgiving became a bone of contention among my well-meaning but traditional meat-and-potatoes fa... Read More ›