Well my friends, yesterday was Thanksgiving. As we're led to believe, yesterday was about family and counting your blessings. It is also a celebration of the pre-masacre feast shared between the pilgrims and their Native American "friends". But the purpose of this blog is not to go into great detail of what happened or how it effects us today. My blog is about food and culinary related topics. So in the reality that is Thanksgiving Day and the commercial beast that it has become, my objective is to find some shred of sanity within the madness.
So, let's talk about Thanksgiving. While I support the notion of giving thanks everyday and spending time with loved ones on a more regular basis, I like the idea of having one particular day that we set aside to enjoy one another's company. Also, I like the food. What I don't like is the amount of waste and the fact that while we indulge in a feast with more food than we'll be able to eat before it spoils, there are 800 million people on this planet who are starving. While we buy into the hype of what the media tells us Thanksgiving is, there are people, even in this country who would be thankful for one meal. We view this holiday as an opportunity to indulge and be thankful for what we have, but in this mindset of blind selfishness we forget to be giving. In our thankfulness I want to encourage you to remember altruism. Hunger is a very real issue that people deal with on a serious level and if we have the means to eat ourselves into a food comma, then it shouldn't be beyond us to help those who need it most.
I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and will enjoy their shopping today.
Peace,
- Jordan
You so eloquently said what I've felt for a long time. I agree wholeheartedly.
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