Here are a few dishes to get you further inspired — both reader-submitted and from the Yankee recipe archives. It seems for some reason you are going out of your way to rewrite or downplay American tradition and Thanksgiving? To begin with, the Turkey is native to the Americas. It was first exported to Europe by the Spanish and then later gradually over the decades made its way to various affluent quarters in England. The Pilgrims may have never seen nor eaten a turkey before. Which is clearly referenced in your text.
Thirdly, the fact that you seem to go out of your way to make a point of referring to the Pilgrims as British I doubt they even referred to themselves that way as they were escaping from British religious persecution and rule, may give some indication?
I am so tired of people attempting to rewrite American history and our traditions. So with that said, Turkey at Thanksgiving was and is clearly one of our cherished traditions! To all Americans at home and abroad, at this difficult time, give thanks and wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy your delicious American Turkey! Believe me, they probably had some turkey! I recently had 5 beautiful wild turkeys on my property here,a sign of abundance according to Native American folk lore! Attend the Wampanoag Pow Wow in Mashpee on the Cape here in the summer on the 4th of July and have some real native American food like I did and see how they really ate!
Grew up eating Succotash every Thanksgiving! You are absolutely correct. Of copurse turkey was on the menu. Refre to my comment above if not censored. Sweet potatoes and green bean casserole are not part of a traditional New England Thanksgiving. They are regional in other regions.
As we are taught in school, the Indians showed the colonists how to plant native crops. But in later sources, they talk about turnips, carrots, onions, garlic and pumpkins as the sorts of things that they were growing.
Of course, to some extent, the exercise of reimagining the spread of food at the celebration becomes a process of elimination. What are the things on the table? You see lots of pies in the first course and in the second course, meat and fish pies.
So what are they putting on instead? Meat without potatoes, that is. White potatoes, originating in South America, and sweet potatoes, from the Caribbean, had yet to infiltrate North America.
Also, there would have been no cranberry sauce. All this, naturally, begs a follow-up question. So how did the Thanksgiving menu evolve into what it is today? Wall explains that the Thanksgiving holiday, as we know it, took root in the midth century. Ewan Munro on Flickr. Rex Sorgatz on Flickr. Fish and shellfish. Any oceanic representation is basically unheard of at Thanksgiving today, but it seems likely that lobsters, mussels, oysters, clams, and fish like striped bass and eels made up a huge part of the early diet of the Pilgrims.
Justin Desrosiers on Flickr. Modern sweet corn has little in common with the corn of the seventeenth century, which was likely multicolored flint corn sometimes known as Indian corn today.
Flint corn is most similar to the modern popcorn: an exceedingly hard, minimally starchy variety. Common preparations at the time, as attested to by Bradford, was typically hand-ground and then stewed to make a porridge. Whit Andrews on Flickr. Winter squash. Squash is native to North America, and pumpkin and other varieties of winter squash hubbard, acorn, butternut were almost certainly on the menu given their importance to the Wampanoag tribes at that time.
Squash was typically boiled or roasted. Christian Guthier on Flickr. Local fruits and vegetables. Jerusalem artichokes sometimes known as sunchokes , the root of the sunflower plant, are likely to have made an appearance.
Same with a selection of beans, which probably included modern varieties like kidney and pinto. Beans were typically boiled in stews — the Wampanoag word for stew is sobaheg — and thickened with ground nuts like chestnut. Rachel on Flickr.
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