In the rush to plan menus, shop for provisions, and cook the turkey, we often forget that there are Americans for whom Thanksgiving really isn't all that much different from any other day. When Serious Eater maggiesara checked with a food pantry near her to see what they'd be serving the homeless on Turkey Day, she found little in the way of traditional Thanksgiving fare: The usual Thursday breakfast [at the Central Synagogue soup kitchen] is beef stew, and when I asked, I was told that they were not going to be doing anything different for Thanksgiving. It saddened me to think that the Synagogue's guests were going to be left out of the national feast. I mean, stew is...
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