Friendsgiving Dinner — October 2025

If there was ever a month where our format needed no explaining, it was this one. Everyone brings a dish, and connects with food. That is just Thanksgiving with extra steps. Our book was The Friendsgiving Cookbook, which is built for precisely this.

Nobody made a turkey and nobody missed it. It was all the parts of Thanksgiving people actually go back for: sweet and sour meatballs, a mac and cheese nobody clocked as vegan until they were told, buffalo cauliflower with its own bowl of sauce, deviled eggs, stuffed mushrooms, mozzarella bites, and a tub of potatoes labelled Let’s Get Mashed. Bana’s Pumpkin Spice and Chill Cake came out under a crown of fresh cranberries and was the best looking thing on the counter all night, for roughly eleven minutes.

This was our stress free edition, for people who are not confident cooking but still want a taste of what our events look like. It worked because a Thanksgiving table is the easiest possible entry point. Everybody already knows how to make one thing for it, and nobody is being judged on a side.

It was also the first one that felt properly like autumn. Everyone came in from the cold and stayed far longer than planned.

We run one of these every month. Subscribers get the link before spots open to everyone.