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Thanksgiving: From Food to Football to Shopping

For most Americans, Thanksgiving can be a holiday of excesses. Too much food at the traditional family dinner, too much football on TV, too many parades starting off the holiday season, followed by too much shopping on Black Friday. But no amount of loosening of the purse strings will likely compare to the most expensive Thanksgiving dinner for 10 offered last year by the Old Homestead Steakhouse in New York: $76,000 for a dinner for 10. The restaurant refused to say if the dinner is...

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