Ilta Fad Hamzavi lives in a tight-knit Muslim community just outside Detroit, Michigan.

And as the US is gearing up for an unusual Thanksgiving, his family has already had to

rework a major holiday this year.

Well, so that's Eid.

Eid, which marks the end of the Ramadan fast.

We all go to the mosque in the morning, and then we all bounce around each other's houses,

and then we have a shared family dinner.

Those are very large dinners.

And that's the time when you see your cousins and your grandparents, and others you don't

often see at that time of year.

Well, Eid was in May this year, and Michigan was in full lockdown.

So Hamzavi and his Muslim neighbors of South Asian descent improvised.

We have these desserts, and we have these traditional syrup that we make in the morning.

That morning, friends and family all shared syrup recipes with each other, calling dibs

on which ones they wanted to make.

And then they hopped on Zoom when they were busy in the kitchen.

And so the process of making the food became the communal event, the consuming the food,

became the individual event.

Yeah, pro tip.

Cooking together on Zoom is more fun than watching people chew.

So as you might expect, many of the families packaged up extra food to drop off at each other's

doorsteps.

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