Thanksgiving is a Melting Pot

You know, I love Thanksgiving for a lot of reasons. Yes, I get together with my family. Yes, we eat good food. But honestly, I also see it as a time to just get sappy about the Melting Pot. I hope you won’t think it’s a cop-out, but I’d really like to share two stories that I feel capture the true spirit of the holiday: the first is one I just did for the Associated Press about the ways famous ethnic Americans celebrate Thanksgiving (Michael Psilakis — such a cutie, Floyd Cardoz, Marcela Valladolid, etc) and the other is one I did for The New York Times about the way we celebrate Thanksgiving in Hawaii, which was my home for seven years. Here they are. Hope you enjoy.