Thanksgiving

How much shopping did Americans do over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend? Here’s how busy it was, according to the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.

An estimated 49 million people who traveled for the holiday are now making their way back home.

President Joe Biden has delivered pumpkin pies to Massachusetts firefighters for Thanksgiving. The president, first lady Jill Biden and their nearly 3-year-old grandson Beau visited with emergency personnel at fire department headquarters on Nantucket island. Earlier in the day, Biden expressed his appreciation for those who risk their lives to help others when he spoke by telephone to the hosts...

Al Roker shared that he’s been released from the hospital in time for Thanksgiving dinner and even got to watch a little bit of the Thanksgiving Day parade.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has offered tips to make sure you cook the turkey and not your home on Thanksgiving.

This Thanksgiving, there is a new face of hunger: the working poor and middle class. And many of them are turning to organizations like Daniel’s Table in Framingham, Massachusetts for help. Wednesday, Daniel’s Table provided free Thanksgiving meals and groceries for a week for 160 families. All year long, they provide wrap-around services to people enduring tough circumstances. “We...

A chilly start to New England’s Thanksgiving morning meant cold road races and football games, and while clouds have been variable today, meaning the sun has played a bit of hide-and-seek in some communities, the absence of wind has meant an absence of wind chill – and that helps.  Afternoon high temperatures in the 40s will actually feel like it…

Prepping a Thanksgiving meal for 350 people might sound daunting, but it’s exactly how St. Francis House’s Head Chef Seth Green spends each and every year. “I get here between 3:30 a.m. and 4 in the morning on the day of to start getting everything put together for the meal.” What’s Green putting together exactly? More than fifty turkeys, 700…

Kitchen staff at St. Francis House in Boston this year are preparing a Thanksgiving meal to feed 350 homeless people. Staff have already begun prepping for the lunch service this morning, preparing 54 turkeys for the lunch service along with a morning breakfast. Karen LaFraizia, President of St. Francis House says the best part of the lunch service for her...

As with any holiday, the actual day is pretty hectic, especially when you have a turkey to thaw, pies to bake and family to welcome — all at the same time. 

As people prepare to welcome family for the holiday, some are already plotting how to keep peace at the table.  “People have their opinions and I feel like you just need to agree to disagree or it will cause a lot of problems,” Ashley Almeder of Weymouth said. Which, according to psychotherapist Anita Astley, means there’s one topic you...

As people prepare to welcome family for the holiday, some are already plotting how to keep peace at the table.

AAA is projecting that 54.6 million people will travel 50 or more miles from home this holiday, the third busiest Thanksgiving weekend since the auto group began tracking in 2000.

Is it really Thanksgiving without NFL games? Here’s a look at the 2022 holiday triple-header, featuring the Vikings, Giants and Lions.

There will be four 2022 FIFA World Cup games being played on Thanksgiving as you stuff yourself with food. Here’s a look at those matchups.

A family therapist recommends you prepare yourself for who you know your family to be, not who you hope they will be.

These common food safety mistakes can make your guests sick — here’s how to avoid them.

Thousands of Boston-area residents were in line for Thanksgiving supplies Tuesday in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Geraldine Benton, a 73-year-old woman on a fixed income, is one of many struggling with the cost of food on the rise. “They really gone up, they really gone up, and it’s terrible,” Benton said. More than $200,000 worth of food items were bought from donations…

After years of Thanksgiving dinners together, Wanda Dench says that Jamal Hinton “changed my life a lot.”