The last Thursday of November is celebrated big time in the US. That is the day of Thanksgiving, one of few holidays that is not a religious one, but has to do with the Indians sharing their food with the Europeans arriving. Nowadays it's still mostly about eating!

It's also a real family holiday. Most of my friends in New York have disappeared away to the towns where they grew up to celebrate with their parents. Everybody knows that almost no one living in the big city actually grew up there. Most people have their roots somewhere else.

I was invited to one of my friends who instead had his family coming over to him in New York. They made turkey, sweet potatoes, corn and pumpkin pi.jpge, while I was asked to prepare Swedish meatballs to add something new to the table. The evening was then spent eating and playing different games, and since I had brought the Swedish lawn game "kubb" I would say that this Thanksgiving was definitely a mix of the traditional American and the new Scandinavian style holidays.