The Thanksgiving dinner or the
Thanksgiving feast symbolizes the tradition and custom of the families
having the dinner together on the Thanksgiving Day. A traditional
picture of Thanksgiving dinner may involve a loving family, a festive
dining table, designer placemats on the table, glowing candles and the
finest crockery generally used on special occasions like this one.
HHistory Of Thanksgiving Dinner
At the first Thanksgiving celebrations the tough, resourceful, able to
fly and hard to catch, turkeys were not the first choice of either the
pilgrims or the Native Americans. This creature was so tenacious that
Benjamin Franklin suggested it to be revered as our national symbol.
(But the Bald Eagle ultimately won the honor by a feather.) It is
believed that the turkey was the main course of the Thanksgiving feast
at the first harvest festival therefore it has been adopted through
time, as the model for Thanksgiving Dinner.
So the turkey is observed as a compulsory dish of the Thanksgiving
dinner even today. No matter through which method it is cooked but the
golden brown, with stuffing and gravy on the side turkey remains the
main attraction of the Thanksgiving dinner and keeps whetting the
appetites of all those present there.
The Thanksgiving Dinner
Menu
The first Thanksgiving feast probably consisted of the dishes such as
Seethed [boiled] Lobster,
Roasted Goose,
Boiled Turkey,
Fricase of Coney,
Pudding of Indian Corn Meal with dried Whortleberries,
Seethed Cod,
Roasted Duck,
Stewed Pumpkin,
Roasted Venison with Mustard Sauce,
Savory Pudding of Hominy
and Fruit and Holland Cheese.
Today a wide variety of dishes have been included in the Thanksgiving
dinner along with the turkey, yet the traditional turkey is still the
meat of choice. There is a large variety of food to choose from for a
perfect Thanksgiving Dinner such as goose, duck, ham, some of the sea's
harvests, sweet potatoes, peas, rice dishes, greens, and even more
exotic vegetables. All these items together make the celebrations of
Thanksgiving Day even more tasteful.
The main idea behind finalizing a perfect Thanksgiving menu is to
choose those dishes that represent the idea of giving thanks for a good
fortune, a good harvesting season, and the sharing of the bounty of
happiness with friends and family.
  
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