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oh, we still cook ( a hell of a lot: turkey with all the trimmings, pumpkin & apple pies) family gets together, kids come home from university. It's a biggy. but nowhere as , um fanatical? as in the US. For us, the Christmas feast is much more significant. I could never get my head around how Americans can have such a huge turkey day in November, and a scant 6 weeks or so later, do it all over again on Christmas. Unless of course, Christmas is played down.
For us, the feast days are spread apart more, and therefore more palatable: turkey at thanksgiving in October (note, all the fall colours are in full force, harvest/ fall fairs are in full swing, apple picking and pumpkin buying are the weekend activities) followed by Christmas turkey dinner in December, and now the appproaching family Easter dinners which are usually ham and sometimes turkey.
That leaves summer with its various weekly BBQs and pool parties with burgers, ribs, and, increasingly, pulled pork and tri-tips....
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