You've found the online home of Glancy family cooking. It's a quick reference for members of the Glancy family, which flourished in the Johnstown, PA area, but has since spread around the world.
Family members have carried these recipes around in Xeroxed binders for years; now it's hopefully a little easier to double-check ingredients on the go. If you just happened across this site, we hope you find something here to make your family gatherings a little tastier. Enjoy!
We live in an age of hyper-fixation on the present. Important, even shocking news from last week can already be pushed out of our minds by a conveyor belt of news, ads, social media feeds, and the hype of ever more game-changing product releases.
In a world of constant now, it can be a little jarring to realize how old some of our assumed practices are. Case in point: Thanksgiving. Granted, it's only been a holiday here in the U.S. for a little over a century, but that cornucopia you see on the side table goes back to the Greeks and Romans. As long as there have been humans trying to civilize themselves, there have been celebrations of abundance.
It can feel a little silly these days -- in a world that so often feels like there is too much of everything, why should we celebrate plenty? Isn't that something we're trying to cope with rather than get excited about? But I think that's only true if you think of abundance as entirely defined by physical things.
What makes a much better case for celebration (especially with those close to you) is finding joy and comfort in the things that can be infinitely renewed in each other: love, patience, grace, hope for better days ahead. That kind of spread is something we're still hungry for. Here's hoping you find much to fill you up this year.
(But also, have some more mashed potatoes while you're at it...)