Turkey with all the trimmings: celebrate Thanksgiving in style at Cut at 45 Park Lane
(Picture: Press handout)Grinches may gripe that the US import of Halloween has become ubiquitous but for the real proof of the creeping Americanisation of our calendar, look no further than the increasing importance of Thanksgiving. Still, Thanksgiving does at least come with better food than Halloween and unless one wants to go full Pilgrim Father, no need to dress up.
Thanksgiving falls on the last Thursday in November — today, November 24 this year — and commemorates the three-day feast celebrated in the early 17th century between the Puritan settlers of the Plymouth Colony and the native American Wampanoag tribe. Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a US national holiday by in 1863.
