holiday feasts
Seasonal gathering dinners
Holiday feasts are elaborate meals prepared for special occasions—Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas lunch, Passover seder, Eid celebrations.
The phrase emphasizes abundance and tradition: tables laden with dishes that appear only at certain times of year.
We spent all morning preparing the holiday feast.
The plural suggests the category of such meals rather than a single occasion.
- ThanksgivingAutumn gratitude holiday
- Christmas dinnerFestive seasonal meal
- tamalesFilled masa, steamed wrapped
- stuffingSeasoned mixture for cavities
- cranberry sauceSweet-tart fruit condiment
turkey dinner · breaking bread · saying grace · Passover Seder · family gathering · dinner table · potluck dinner · culinary heritage · communal dining · latkes · festive meals · family recipes · eggnog · Eid al-Fitr · giving thanks · mulled wine · ham · second helpings
holiday feastsregular meals
holiday feastsfasting
Deliberate food avoidance
starvation · famine · bread and water · scraps · deprivation