Quote by Ted Allen
The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you

The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. – Ted Allen

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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in Waiting for Guffman, but on Thanksgiving youre putting on a show! – Ted Allen

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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations. – Ted Allen

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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. – Ted Allen

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Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! – Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. – Phillips Brooks

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. – Izaak Walton

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. – Charles Lamb, 1821

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