cookiecrafter
Senior Cook
See many morning TV talk shows warning viewers to start buying Thanksgiving non-perishables "now." Do you think there will be shortages? Are prices going to skyrocket?
I feed a group of people (my family) a traditional turkey dinner. That "notion" spans four generations and any thought of my changing the menu has been met with a firm rejection.. . .The notion of turkey on Thanksgiving is a fairly recent Madison Avenue invention.
Generations of Americans have cheerfully given thanks over dinners of roast chicken, pork, lasagna, chicken and dumplings, etc…
You don't have to celebrate Thanksgiving to cook the traditional foods.I don't celebrate this holiday but I wish I could. It sounds delicious.
We can probably thank Sara Josepha Hale, poet, writer, first woman magazine editor in the United States, and author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, for that. For years, she promoted a national day of Thanksgiving, and in the 1860s, after President Lincoln agreed, she published recipes for the feast, including turkey. Wild turkeys were plentiful and easy to hunt at the time, and they provided enough food to feed the large families common then.The notion of turkey on Thanksgiving is a fairly recent Madison Avenue invention.
Is there not a harvest celebration where you live? That's really what it is.I don't celebrate this holiday but I wish I could. It sounds delicious.
I have read something similar elsewhere. It said that turkey for Thanksgiving was meant to be an "every man" meal. That was why the bread stuffing, rather than an expensive, fancy, French, meat stuffing. Turkey was available for the hunting to most Americans back then. It was sort of an anti-snob feast.We can probably thank Sara Josepha Hale, poet, writer, first woman magazine editor in the United States, and author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, for that. For years, she promoted a national day of Thanksgiving, and in the 1860s, after President Lincoln agreed, she published recipes for the feast, including turkey. Wild turkeys were plentiful and easy to hunt at the time, and they provided enough food to feed the large families common then.
For more info: https://www.almanac.com/why-turkey-thanksgiving
The 1040s?GeeGolly there are a lot of Thanksgiving origins. The one that I agreed on is this. There were many new imigrants mainly from Europe during the 1040's and they celebrated Thanksgiving different times of the year. To unite the United States more fully, Thanksgiving becamea recognized holiday in November.