tastes, and since there are a bunch of them they rule. It's not that none have money, or even education and travel, but there are no real foodies and for them Thanksgiving's all about tradition. And I suspect some of these traditions extend well back into the reconstruction period, which after all only really ended after the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
That said, really? Fresh cranberry compote instead of canned cranberry sauce? How do you even get away with that? Don't you have to serve both to avoid the disappointed complaints from the canned faction? Ours drew a fat red line on that one a long time ago.
Oh, btw, went to a big Thanksgiving potluck once in northern Florida. There were 11 mac and cheeses. I counted and took pix for friends back in California.
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