How to celebrate your first Thanksgiving in the United States?

Because it is a secular, non-sectarian celebration, Thanksgiving is without a doubt the most celebrated day in the United States and perhaps the most important dinner of the year. But, for all those who study or are in the United States, this fourth Thursday of November, and for which it is the first Thanksgiving, it can be a totally foreign festival. Here are the five things to know before sitting down at the dinner table.

1. What are we celebrating?

Thanksgiving is a celebration that celebrates close family and friends as well as the fall harvest. At the heart of this holiday is a deep sense of gratitude. As the name suggests, this is a day to "give thanks".

2. The Thanksgiving story

In the absence of any historical consensus on the exact place or date of the first Thanksgiving meal on American soil, the celebration of this holiday is most often considered to have taken place in 1621, in the current city of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

4. What's on the Thanksgiving dinner menu?

Turkey

For most non-vegetarian families, turkey occupies a prominent place in the Thanksgiving feast. Whether roasted, smoked, pickled or fried, getting the perfect blend of crispy skin on the outside, and soft flesh inside, is an art.

Stuffing

Before baking turkey, stuff it with corn bread, onions, celery and dried bilberries. After a few hours cooking inside the turkey, this "joke", with sweet notes, will become deliciously tender and juicy.

Gravy Sauce

Once you have removed the turkey from the oven, it will be time for the gravy sauce. Prepared with leftover cooking juices in the bottom of a pan, this thick turkey gravy sauce can generously accompany almost any Thanksgiving meal.

Mashed potatoes

What other dish could accompany this sauce? Topped with a juicy meat gravy sauce, mashed potatoes is perhaps the most delicious (and hearty) dish on the Thanksgiving dinner menu.

5. Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday

After being wildly gorged on Thursday at Thanksgiving dinner, it's time to indulge in a frantic shopping spree on Black Friday. Considered the unofficial start of the holiday season, Black Friday is famous in the United States for its considerable discounts and the general hysteria it arouses from customers running from one store to another looking for best deals. Luckily, for all of us who do not like crowds, Cyber ​​Monday, its online equivalent, takes place on the following Monday.

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Celebrate Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is originally a religious holiday to thank God for the abundance of crops and the generosity of nature. It is good, at least once a year, to stop to appreciate the food that makes us live and, by extension, the kindness we receive, beyond the daily troubles and rebuffs of life. And that's good, in Quebec, it's a holiday!

What to do with Thanksgiving?

The classic turkey of Thanksgiving. In several families, we meet for a dinner, whose star is undeniably the turkey. Of course, you can also turkey in a gourmet way, thanks to the small cuts now available on the market. But presenting a whole turkey, roasted in the oven for hours in its juice, is always the most beautiful effect. The traditions comfort!

A harvest festival. Head to the public market to enjoy the exuberance of nature. It is also the ideal time to put your crops in jars, visit a vineyard or a farm.

Plant our bulbs. If it was already planned for your autumn diary, why not do it on Thanksgiving Day?

Make fall leaves fall. Every Thanksgiving, the mountain calls me. This walk in the forest is my way of saying thank you to life. This ritual to which I am faithful helps me to deal with the necessary renunciations, to accept the cycles of life and the maturity that some projects require.

A small retreat in itself. Hands in the ground, we do not think about anything or we think about this saying: We harvest what we sow ... As exposed in The art of happiness of the Dalai Lama, we think about interdependence because we all depend on each other, whether we eat or what we wear.

Inaugurate a journal of gratitude. Write down the little comforts of the day, the little extras that put sunshine in your daily life. Very useful to cheer up during the "black moon" (as I call my bad days).

Thank someone who is important in your life. To close friends, I have already sent a small card symbolizing Noah's ark and its essential animals in pursuit of the species, indicating that they were necessary for the pursuit of my dreams. Invite a girlfriend or a colleague to lunch to thank her for what she brought you and, tell her!

Make others benefit from your talent and your luck . If you can afford it, send a donation to a charity or sign up for a barter club. After all, nowadays, the fruit of our work is not necessarily ... fruits and vegetables! Thus, you could share your talent with that of others.

Archangel Michael is the Light of Light, Blue Ray and God's champion. One of the sun gods, the universal defender, the driver of the dragon, the head of angels; Alpha and Omega, the dragon captures and forms chaos. Genesis is the creative god in our corner. Michael's consciousness lives in Vega.