Happy Thanksgiving from Paris!

It's weird how the French don't seem to understand my dismay at the fact that I have school on THANKSGIVING from 8 am to 6 pm.  They just don't understand the cruelty in that.  So, I guess I have to fall in line and show up for the entire day despite my desire to be surrounded by family in the kitchen cooking all sorts of delicious and fattening foods.  The good news is that some of us from the class are going to get together tonight (after we finish dissecting a pig this afternoon and making sausage out of it) at Carleta's to try our best to throw together a Thanksgiving meal to share with friends. 

Good thing Paris has a store called....wait for it...Thanksgiving!  Yes, it is God send in Paris when you are looking for American groceries that are nowhere else to be found such as Jif peanut butter and other similar American delicacies.  The store also carries all kinds of Thanksgiving must haves around the holidays like stuffed turkeys, cranberries, graham cracker crusts, pecans and even StoveTop!  The bad news is that you will pay a premium for all of it.  However, something comes over you when you enter the store that makes you not care so much that you are paying tenfold what you would pay in the states.  Maybe it's holiday cheer or maybe they pump some sort of feel good gas through the air vents.  Who knows?  Either way, you walk out of  there smiling ear to ear despite the fact you just spent 60 euros ($90) on some cranberries, stuffing and pecans.

Thanksgiving

4th Arrondissement

20, rue Saint Paul

http://www.thanksgivingparis.com

B proudly displaying his newly acquired jar of peanut butter.