Thanksgiving Foods

30 items

Hosting goes wrong in the same way every year: everybody offers to bring something, nobody coordinates, and the table ends up with four desserts and no vegetables. Send the list round, have each guest draw, and the menu assembles itself without anyone having to be told what to make. Thirty dishes covering the US table: mains, sides, breads and the puddings that matter. Hosts should draw last and take whatever is left, which is both fair and the fastest way to end the negotiation.