So last year, I let you in our family drama surrounding plain dressing versus “fancy” dressing and how it ends up that everyone gets what they want. This Thanksgiving, I’m carrying on with that theme and talking about the Great Cranberry Sauce debate.

Holidays, especially food holidays, reach down through our minds to our stomachs and back up to our hearts to trigger those warm, happy memories. I’m betting that many of you can’t remember every person who has ever attended a certain holiday gathering, but you can remember if a certain dish was missing. And if someone messes up a favorite dish, you have instant recall of the year that Aunt So-and-So burned the marshmallows on the sweet potatoes or Cousin Whosit’s new wife put mushrooms in the green bean casserole.