Thanksgiving Advice from CHOW’s Etiquette Expert

Published on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, by Roxanne Webber / Edit Post

Table Manners Thanksgiving Etiquette Advice

CHOW's resident etiquette columnist, Helena Echlin, has been writing the column Table Manners for the last five years. Here's her best advice on how to survive Thanksgiving, all in one place.

How to Host a Turkey-Free Thanksgiving
If you're a vegetarian, how do you successfully throw Thanksgiving without a turkey?

Thanksgiving-Hopping
You've got multiple Thanksgiving dinner invites. Is there a way to hit all the meals without offending?

Greedy Gobbler
Are guests entitled to leftovers (which are, after all, the best part of Thanksgiving)?

What If You Ruin the Turkey?
Quick! Order pizza! (And other ways to salvage your party.)

Meddling Mother-in-Law
Your mother-in-law knows exactly how the gravy should be done. Yeah, right. Here are ways to get her out of the kitchen.

Thanksgiving Turkey Snob Dilemma
Is it wrong to suggest that your host buy a politically correct bird?

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  • on request for neighbor's _dessert delivert" how about saying, NO. IF THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE,maybe you could offer her the recipes? invite her over the next day for coffee and dessert? but i really think we should counter unreasonable requests with reasobable answers, placing reasonable boundaries into our relationships without feeling guilty. just say no!

  • I have made Thanksgiving dinner for years now, last year one of my regular invites actually called me up and expected me to bring desert over to her house and share it with her guests later in the day. I was so stunned I made some story about not being able to transport the deserts with out ruining them. What should have I said.