About 46 million turkeys will end up on U. See the Green Guide's suggestions for having a greener—and more grateful—Thanksgiving. These "big six" states produce two of every three U.
Census Bureau. The top producers are Wisconsin and Massachusetts. The U. But if you overeat at Thanksgiving dinner, there's a price to be paid for all this plenty: the Thanksgiving "food coma. Contrary to myth, the amount of the organic protein tryptophan in most turkeys isn't responsible for drowsiness.
Instead, scientists blame booze, the sheer caloric size of an average feast, or just plain-old relaxing after stressful work schedules. Little is known about the first Thanksgiving dinner in the Plimoth also spelled Plymouth Colony in October , attended by some 50 English colonists and about 90 Wampanoag American Indian men in what is now Massachusetts.
We do know that the Wampanoag killed five deer for the feast, and that the colonists shot wild fowl—which may have been geese, ducks, or turkey. Some form, or forms, of Indian corn were also served. But Jennifer Monac, spokesperson for the living-history museum Plimoth Plantation, said the feasters likely supplemented their venison and birds with fish, lobster, clams, nuts, and wheat flour, as well as vegetables such as pumpkin, squash, carrots, and peas.
There were lots of vegetables around, because the harvest had been brought in. Much of what we consider traditional Thanksgiving fare was unknown at the first Thanksgiving. Potatoes and sweet potatoes hadn't yet become staples of the English diet, for example. And cranberry sauce requires sugar—an expensive delicacy in the s. Likewise, pumpkin pie went missing due to a lack of crust ingredients.
If you want to eat like a Pilgrim yourself, try some of the Plimoth Plantation's recipes , including stewed pompion pumpkin or traditional Wampanoag succotash. American Indian peoples, Europeans, and other cultures around the world often celebrated the harvest season with feasts to offer thanks to higher powers for their sustenance and survival.
Later such feasts were held by French Huguenot colonists in present-day Jacksonville, Florida , by English colonists and Abnaki Indians at Maine's Kennebec River , and in Jamestown, Virginia , when the arrival of a food-laden ship ended a brutal famine. It's the Plimoth Thanksgiving that's linked to the birth of our modern holiday. The truth is the first "real" Thanksgiving happened two centuries later.
Everything we know about the three-day Plimoth gathering comes from a description in a letter wrote by Edward Winslow, leader of the Plimoth Colony, in , Monac said. In Boston publisher Alexander Young printed Winslow's brief account of the feast and added his own twist, dubbing the feast the "First Thanksgiving. In Winslow's "short letter, it was clear that [the feast] was not something that was supposed to be repeated again and again.
It wasn't even a Thanksgiving, which in the 17th century was a day of fasting. Paramount Pictures. Summit Entertainment. Fox Searchlight Pictures. Universal Pictures. Fair Game. For Colored Girls. The Social Network. Break Ke Baad. Reliance Big Pictures. UTV Motion Pictures. The Town. Paranormal Activity 2. Jackass 3D. Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States since However, not everyone sees Thanksgiving Day as a cause for celebration.
American Indian Heritage Day is also observed at this time of the year. Another early event was held in in the Virginia Colony.
Many people trace the origins of the modern Thanksgiving Day to the harvest celebration the Pilgrims held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in However, their first true thanksgiving was in , when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast. In the second half of the s, thanksgivings after the harvest became more common and started to become annual events.
In the same manner, Thanksgiving in and was celebrated on third next-to-last Thursdays. In December Thanksgiving date was fixed as the fourth Thursday in November. By continuing using our site, you accept our cookie policy and consent to the use of cookies. Read more. Toggle navigation Toggle search box Calendar
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