As Thanksgiving approaches, organizations and individuals are joining efforts to ensure everyone has a meal this holiday. Celebrating its 30th year, “Canstruction” returns to New York City’s Brookfield Place to host its annual competition between local architects, contractors, and engineers to create extravagant displays, using only canned non-perishables. The canned foods are later donated to City Harvest, New York’s first and largest food rescue organization, which has been delivering nutritious food to hundreds of food pantries and community food programs across our five boroughs for the last forty years.

This year, twenty brilliant teams came together to compete and challenge themselves to create unforgettable “Canstruction” sculptures. From Baby Yoda ensuring “May the Food be with You” to “WaCANda Forever” and King Tut’s “A Meal Fit for a King”, this year’s canstructors have created fantastic pieces. While the companies are also competing for awards from a panel of jurors and people’s choice, the main goal is to help stop hunger, and ensure that everyone has access to a holiday meal to share with their families. Canstruction is open to the public until November 14th. If you “CAN”, remember to donate at your local food bank or neighborhood food drive!

Thanksgiving is, of course, a very American holiday (sorry, Canada), and we thought it¹d be interesting to ask the diverse staff at the firm to describe their Thanksgiving traditions. We wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Ada Biewald, Bookkeeper
Our tradition is to be partially untraditional. We have smoked ham instead of turkey, but with stuffing, together with all trimmings of mashed and sweet potatoes, homemade cranberry sauce, and baked apples with cinnamon. No one leaves before the apple and pecan pies are served. I remind our children each year how lucky and thankful we must be to live in the great USA!

Gentiana Bitri, Paralegal
Thanksgiving is not a European holiday, so I didn't know really anything about it before I came to the US. The upcoming one will be the first Thanksgiving holiday ever in my life, and I already asked my mother if she is planning to prepare the traditional turkey and any other US goodies, most notably pumpkin pie. It looks like I am going to have a great Thanksgiving holiday, finally with my family!