Ever wish that Thanksgiving dinner was a lot more festive and heartening? A gathering that’s perhaps a little less fraught and forced? Everyone has been through the kind of cringe–worthy scenarios unique to the holiday: the massive feast with awkward (and often intrusive) family conversations punctuated by the sullen silences of long–married couples, the inebriated aunt who’s telling off–color jokes on her seventh glass of Chardonnay, and the belligerent uncle who (every year) will recount…