This year I was able to celebrate Thanksgiving with my partner and his family in Vienna! We cooked for eleven people and had a lot of fun! I was able to learn some new food vocabulary while cooking and shopping in local shops. I wanted to bake a pumpkin pie so I needed to find pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, eggs and sugar. We had learned “sugar” and “eggs” the day before in my DeutschAkademie course, so it was easy to find “Eier” in the fridge and “Zucker” in the baking aisle of Billa. I needed to look up the other ingredients in a dictionary on my phone and learned that pumpkin is “Kürbis,” cinnamon is “Zimt,” nutmeg is “Muskatnuss,” and ginger is “Ingwer.” I think it turned out perfectly! Maybe next year, I’ll be able to use a recipe from a cookbook written in German!