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On Thanksgiving, are you the chef or the diner? The culinary artist or the culinary beneficiary? Do you love the ritual of preparing loads of delicious dishes hours ahead of the big day, or do you think the only work Thanksgiving should require is a phone call to your favorite restaurant for a dinner reservation?

In addition to its traditional themes of family and gratitude, Thanksgiving Day is frequently referred to as the biggest U.S. holiday for eating, with typical Thanksgiving meals stretching out over a couple of hours before (and sometimes continuing into) afternoon football games.

Let's eat out
But according to National Restaurant Association research, 11% of Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day by eating out in one of the U.S.'s 935,000 restaurants and another 53% percent buy restaurant-prepared take-out items for all or part of their Thanksgiving Day meals. These culinary items range from complete holiday dinners (from soup to apple pie), to a ready-to-eat turkeys or hams, to appetizers, side dishes, and desserts. Americans in small households or in households without children are more likely to eat out on Thanksgiving. Men are more likely than women to eat at a restaurant on the holiday, and younger adults are more likely to buy restaurant take-out dishes for Thanksgiving dinners held at home.

The Pilgrims launch America's Culinary Arts career sector.

Turn your passion into culinary career
If you love to cook and entertain, you may want to turn your passion into a culinary career as a chef or culinary arts specialist. Talented chefs soon develop a fan following just as keen as any Hollywood celebrity, and providing good food to tired, hungry patrons is a real service in this busy 21st-century American culture.

Culinary Arts: Nutritious + Delicious
The holiday season is a frantic time, but a great time, to be in culinary career. The National Restaurant Association points out that "restaurants offer patrons nutritious, traditional, and creative Thanksgiving dishes without the hours of planning, shopping, and cooking—not to mention cleaning up." In fact, the Association's research showed that 79% of American adults would rather eat out in restaurants with family and friends not just on Thanksgiving, but any day of the year, because letting someone else do the cooking and cleaning up allows precious free time to be spent just on being together. Sharing a meal is a form of bonding that will never become extinct.

Culinary careers in the community
A culinary career offers the opportunity for community outreach on a large scale, too. Per the National Restaurant Association, most restaurants serve communities as well as families and friends during the holiday season. Especially at Thanksgiving, but even year-round, nine out of 10 restaurants are actively engaged in some type of charitable activity, including the provision of hot, nutritious meals to those who need them most.

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