Thanksgiving: A Round Table

As a food-and-wine-driven agency, it feels appropriate to talk about Thanksgiving — that annual circus of dry turkey, overcooked stuffing, and unsolicited political opinions from your caveman uncle. The meal is usually average, the conversation worse. But maybe that’s the point.

Because the idea of Thanksgiving — stripped of its tired narrative — should be about something real. A reason to gather. To cook. To host. To sit around a table with the people who make life make sense, whether they share your bloodline or just your sense of humor.

Traditionally, we build these long tables with “hosts” at opposite ends — divided by age, gender, whatever arbitrary rules we inherited. I’m saying scrap that. Make it a round table. Equal footing. Wine flowing. Everyone within arm’s reach of the mashed potatoes and the good stories.

We should do it more often — not the holiday, the act of it. Hosting. Feeding each other. Movie nights, cheese boards, Sunday dinners that last too long. The lost art of hanging out. No phones. No bullshit. Just food, people, and presence.

And for the love of all things holy, if you’re bringing potatoes — make them yourself. No one respects a plastic tub from the grocery store. The only exception to this rule is wine. Bring something good, and you’re forgiven for everything else.

So here’s to a Thanksgiving worth remembering. To chosen families, to real conversation, to staying local and skipping the corporate chaos tomorrow. Raise a glass, pass the gravy, and remember why we do this in the first place.