In certain households, it’s all about the essentials for Thanksgiving—a perfect turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy. But when cultures mix and appetites range, the eccentricities of variety start to change up the holidays. For this we are truly grateful, because life wouldn’t be interesting without a departure from the ordinary, right?
“I celebrate every year, since I have American children,” Paulina Porizkova told Modelinia. “I never celebrated until I came here, and it wasn’t that important to me; it’s kind of important to my kids and husband. We go upstate to our house in the country with our 25 relatives and fry a turkey in the backyard like a good white trash family! I let my brother do it. I have to admit my turkeys are pathetic. That’s a constant in my life. Mine look really good, like the one in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. But you know the part where they carve into the turkey and it just turns to ash? That’s kind of what mine looks like. That’s why my brother is in charge of the turkey. I make a really awesome tomato soup, though. It’s not an American tradition, but we needed to lighten up the menu from all the sweets and the starch. I harvest the tomatoes that I grow in my own organic garden myself and make them into a puree and make soup for Thanksgiving!”
We love Paulina’s menu ingenuity… Do you have untraditional Thanksgiving tradition?
