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Feeling grateful, this year especially, for rest, for connection, and for books. I don’t know how I would have survived the last year without them. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This snapshot is from Eating Animals, which I finished just the other day, and which coincidentally discussed Thanksgiving! The book explores our relationship to food, especially food as social activity, tradition, or religion. This holiday — with all of its complicated associations — is shaped by our community and connection to food in really powerful ways. I’ll be posting a full review of the book soon, but I wanted to share this excerpt: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Thanksgiving is an American holiday, but there’s nothing specifically American about it — we aren’t celebrating America, but American ideals. It’s openness makes it available to anyone who feels like expressing thanks, and points beyond the crimes America made possible, and the commercialization, kitsch, and jingoism that have been heaved onto the shoulders of the holiday […] Of the thousand or so meals we eat every year, Thanksgiving dinner is the one that we try most earnestly to get right. It holds the hope of being a good meal, whose ingredients, efforts, setting, and consuming are expressions of the best in us. More than any other meal, it is about good eating and good thinking.” ~ Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer ID: I’m holding a paperback book open to a page with a chapter title that reads: what do turkeys have to do with thanksgiving? You can see leaves on the ground and my black sneakers in the background. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CWteWQnLjse/