Greek-American Thanksgiving Traditions and Foods?

[mastichas09]

Thanksgiving is coming up and will be here before we know it. I think about this every year at Thanksgiving. How have the American traditions and Greek culture merged at American Thanksgiving?

For us, it has been about serving our favorite foods and sharing it with loved ones. This means, an interesting stuffing with rice and chestnuts, spanakopita, kolokithopita, and milopita.

What has has this meant for your own Thanksgiving spreads?

 

[PemiKanavos]

Thanksgiving, unlike other American holidays, is one that is more translatable for other cultures.
Thanksgiving menu usually includes traditional items — turkey , stuffing, and not forget pecan pie — but also a spin is put on the meal with more cultural traditional dishes.
In our case Greeks bring to the table spanakopita tiropita, kolokithopita, but I’ve all so seen dolmadakia, patates fournou, tzatziki. Galaktompouriko baklava, karithopita for dessert.

 

[k_tsoukalas]

Yes, Pemi. We do something similar! We tend to serve Greek desserts and appetizers but will do the turkey and all that as usual.