If you haven’t discovered Tipper’s blog Blind Pig & The Acorn yet, this is a good time to wander on over. Tipper has a guest post by Jim Casada about the Thanksgiving traditions of his youth in the Smoky Mountains. Go on over and check it out…

For me personally, it is a day when nostalgia reigns supreme. Much of my thankfulness involves looking back on my youth and early days of manhood with fond recollections of family folkways associated with Thanksgiving. Many, although by no means all, of those enduring memories revolve around food. They encompass not only the actual menu items but how they were procured, the methods of preparation, and the simple fact of identification with the holiday.

via High Country Thanksgiving Traditions – Blind Pig & The Acorn.