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Thursday

Gouda's cheese market day, Rome's gnocchi day under grated cheese, and the American Thanksgiving table.

Thursday has cheese in its weekly and yearly habits. Gouda, the town that named the world's best-known Dutch cheese, holds its summer market on Thursday mornings. Roman trattorias keep an old rhythm in which Thursday is gnocchi day. And once a year, on the fourth Thursday of November, American families bake macaroni and cheese for Thanksgiving.

Gouda on Thursdays

From April to August, farmers bring boerenkaas to the Markt in Gouda on Thursday mornings, where buyers taste, haggle and clap hands on a price in front of the Waag of 1668. Stalls around the square sell cheese of every age, from young, mild Gouda to old cheese with salt crystals in the paste.

Giovedì gnocchi

A Roman saying sets the week's menu: gnocchi on Thursday, fish on Friday, tripe on Saturday. Thursday's potato or semolina gnocchi were a filling meal before the Friday abstinence from meat. They are served with tomato sauce or butter and sage and finished with grated Parmigiano or pecorino romano, and many trattorias in Rome still make them only on Thursdays.

Thanksgiving Thursday

On the fourth Thursday of November, the American Thanksgiving table often includes a baked dish of macaroni and Cheddar, especially in the South, and a cheese ball before dinner.

Traditions

  • Gouda cheese market: Thursday mornings from April to August.
  • Giovedì gnocchi: Rome's Thursday gnocchi, under grated cheese.
  • Thanksgiving: The fourth Thursday of November in the United States.

The cheeses

Pecorino RomanoThe sharp sheep's cheese of Roman kitchens.

Also part of it, and being written: Gouda cheese (Sold at Gouda's Thursday market, young or aged.), Parmigiano Reggiano (Grated over Thursday gnocchi.), Cheddar cheese (Baked into Thanksgiving macaroni and cheese.).

Sources and further reading

About this page

Written by the EveryCheese desk with AI assistance. Customs differ by community and family, and are described here as tradition, not instruction. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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