Thanksgiving Horror Stories

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

No, that’s not my family in the photograph.

My raucous family was never that quietly composed (or zombie-like, whichever you prefer) as we gathered around the Thanksgiving table. And we did have better china. The photo, which culinary author Lou Jane Temple found in a flea market, did remind me of Tolstoy’s famous line: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

I’ve had more than my share of awful Thanksgivings.