holiday meals
Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas
Holiday meals are the special foods prepared for celebrations like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or Passover.
These meals typically feature traditional dishes passed down through families or cultures, served when relatives gather: We're hosting the holiday meals this year.
The term evokes abundance, ritual, and the stress of cooking for crowds.
- turkeyWattled North American fowl
- family gatheringsRelatives meeting socially
- kids' tableSeating for young guests
- feastingEating sumptuously together
- second helpingsAdditional portions of food
food coma · feijoada · comfort food · mooncakes · pierogi · baklava · culinary heritage · traditional recipes · communal dining · setting the table · tamales · pavlova · matzo ball soup · candy canes · stollen · couscous · challah · latkes
- food memoriesbirthday cake, home cooking, family recipes, comfort foods, Sunday dinner
- foodwaysfood rituals, food taboos, blessing food, table manners, dining etiquette
- food culturefood customs, table manners, food traditions, culinary traditions, dining etiquette
- community servicefood pantry, Peace Corps, soup kitchen, AmeriCorps, homeless shelter
- family dinnersupper, dinner, Sunday dinner, Thanksgiving dinner, family dinner
- food bankpantry, donations, volunteers, canned goods, nonperishable
elaborateness
holiday mealsquick meals
Rapidly prepared dishes
fast food · microwave dinner · TV dinner · TV dinners · frozen dinners