I think my husband is happy to do nothing in the kitchen on a holiday, but sometimes he does help out, more like I might boss him around a little where I need another pair of hands. Sometimes he offers, sometimes I ask. Thanksgiving my parents usually visit, so my mom and I can usually do it all.
Once in a while he owns a whole project in the kitchen, but not on thanksgiving. None of the foods on thanksgiving are foods he is familiar with making. His mom didn’t really make any of them growing up, he wasn’t raised in America, he tends to be in charge of foods that either he was familiar with as a child, or foods we have discovered together and purposely learned how to make.