American Thanksgiving Food Traditions

Food historians Kathleen Curtain and Sandra L. This traditional american thanksgiving menu has every recipe you need for a classic holiday meal from turkey to pumpkin pie.

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American thanksgiving food traditions. The smell of celery onion and herbs fill. Crab and lobster dinners arent unheard of either in fact if you really want to replicate the first Thanksgiving you should have a shellfish eel and venison feast. The Craziest Thanksgiving Food Traditions In Every State In some states chicken spaghetti is as popular as turkey.

It also details the evolution of the American diet. By SharonKurheg November 26 2020. Oliver describe the Pilgrims first Thanksgiving meal as an eclectic assortment of indigenous foods and European tradition.

The potato rounds are cooked until just done in a bath of butter and sugar so the tuberous vegetable soaks up a bit of sweetness a contrast to the heavily savory plate youll be compiling. Roasted turkey is the main dish in a traditional American Thanksgiving meal This large bird roasts in the oven all morning. Many of the dishes in a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner are made from ingredients native to the Americas including turkey potatoes yams pumpkin and cranberries.

Well they are traditional thanksgiving foods in the sense that americans have been eating some of these foods and other foods as thanksgiving staples for calling this new vegetable a yam came from the african slaves. When you picture traditional Thanksgiving foods you probably think of turkey mashed potatoes gravy and yams. What Non-Americans Think About Thanksgiving Food Traditions.

Home Funny Stuff What Non-Americans Think About Thanksgiving Food Traditions. Pam Reeds candied sweet potatoes are a happy medium between a sweet potato casserole and roasted sweet potatoes two traditional Thanksgiving side dishes. Yes we both eat turkey the tradition of eating turkey at Thanksgiving reportedly came after the American Revolution when many British loyalists fled to Canada as refugees.

Turkey may be king on Thanksgiving but ham roast beef goose and other roasts will show up on tables across America. But since America is a melting pot it only makes sense that multicultural traditions have made their way onto the Thanksgiving table in different regions of the United States. The pioneering American surgeon Mason Finch Cogswell born in 1691 in Canterbury Connecticut described a typical eighteenth century Thanksgiving meal in his 1788 journalOn Thanksgiving dayhe attended church in the morning ate a dinner afterward consisting of turkey pork pumpkins and apple piesCogswell spent time with his fater then sang gonts and ate apples and nuts in the kitchen with.

Our survey of Thanksgiving menus through time reveals an interesting mix of tradition creativity and individual statement. A book published this week by the Minnesota Historical Society Press details the influence of American Indian culture on contemporary diets. Immigrants such as the Plymouth Pilgrims may have learned about some of these foods from the Native Americans but other foods were not available to the early settlers.

Well that is. In fact food consumed on a daily basis can trace its literal roots to what was cultivated in the pre-Colonial era. Theres nothing odder than trying to celebrate what you consider to be a national holiday in a place where they dont celebrate it.

Depending on where in Canada youre from and how purely Canadian your traditions are the food can be a little different too. Long a darling of the holiday dessert table the pecan finds new roles in Thanksgiving rolls date bars and a savory sage cocktail cookie. The typical American Thanksgiving fare owes a great deal to American Indians.

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