Thanksgiving Day Feast: The Role Of The Turkey From Late 1800 To Late 1900

“Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel” -Unknown. When cultures collide, A person tends to have conflicts with others and also with themselves. In “Thanksgiving: A Personal History” By Jennifer New, She experiences internal conflict because she is confused on how she should celebrate her first thanksgiving as an adult, to either use old traditions she did as a child or to start a new thing as an adult.

In the late 1800’s food was treasured, but the cooking appliances were rudimentary. Now, food is so commonly available it is taken for granted and the cooking appliances are advanced. Native American food and cuisine have historical significance because it has changed the way we cook today. Before you had to hunt for your meal. Now we eat very unhealthy meals which are easier and quicker to make. Native Americans had to use farming methods that let them grow crops on the same soil. It was a very hard, tiring, and miserable. Now we have microwaves, ovens, and mixers. Even though, we have more advanced utensils to use, food is less healthy than

Many years ago, backyard chickens were commonplace throughout the United States of America – mainly for nutrition. During that time, backyard chickens were easy to take care of and a small number of them could feed a family with meat and eggs for a bargain. Years later, manufacturing food became the way of life and

Thanksgiving is functional within society because like most traditions or rituals it generates momentum for the unity of members in society. However, Thanksgiving is also a dysfunction in the American Society because it promotes excessive eating and therefore usually contributes to unwanted weight gain for individuals. During this holiday individuals are expected to take time from their schedule to spend time with family and feast on Thanksgiving stables such as turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes and rolls and we identify this as a manifest function. The latent function of Thanksgiving is holiday shopping through traditional Black Friday Sales and preparation for the holiday, Christmas by putting up one’s Christmas tree and

In what way is the “unlikely pairing of histories” at the thanksgiving celebration especially American? For many years, it has been a tradition for American to sit around the table and tell stories of the past and which we’ve overcome.

* Seven banded chickadees made up the ‘Class of 1937’ including bird #65290. (December, pg. 94)

In an article by Pleck (2011) it was claimed that the pilgrims did not have ruffled shirts, buckled shoes nor did they consume on turkey at the harvest feast that occurred in 1621. This may come as a shock to most because growing up we were taught to believe these along with other “facts” about the harvest feast that we come to know as the first thanksgiving. The pilgrims lost many of their people in the winter of 1620 due to lack of foraging knowledge. This led the colony to form a relationship with the Wampanoag tribe. They taught them how to fish as well as gather vegetables. This is thought to be common knowledge but as previously stated this may not be completely true after all. Pleck was not the only person to uncover the truth about the harvest feast of 1621. A director named Ellis (2010) made a documentary that confirms the feast

William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Plantation” opened my eyes about Plymouth and Thanksgiving. First of all, there was a part in Bradford’s background that caught my eye: Thanksgiving. I am sure that many of us at some point visualized Thanksgiving as a large feast. However, I found it shocking that his narrative does not emphasize a feast, but rather a document of what it was like in Plymouth and the interactions with the Native Americans. Either way, I still found it interesting how Thanksgiving came to be. It would be nice to read another person’s viewpoint of Thanksgiving and to see if there really was a feast or not.

Most people have the custom of buying a turkey for thanksgiving. “46 million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving” (Turkey for the Holidays). Traditionally, people eat an abundance of food resembling the pilgrims and how they had a feast based on their religion. Furthermore, there are many different varieties of food such as: turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce, and dinner rolls. For dessert there is pumpkin, apple, and pecan pie. Most of the time the food is extraordinary people just want more. They might even take some and have it again later on. Thanksgiving is a feast we are blessed to

This week’s reading topic is about the history of chickens. In the Smithsonian article “ How the Chicken Conquered the World” by Andrew Lawler and Jerry Adler, it discusses about how chickens have saved the Western civilization. According to the legend, the Athenian general Themistocles came across a cocks fight during his way to invade the Persians forces. In addition, history records that the Greeks repel the invaders and preserved the civilisation “honors the creatures by breading, frying and dipping them into one’s choice of sauce.” These creatures are known as the descendants of roosters.

Classroom Use: After the heavy reading in the previous two books, it’s time to take a departure and discuss the only other country that celebrates a holiday called Thanksgiving. This book is light and fun to read, giving the students a break

During Thanksgiving Day many people are gather and have a dinner together, in that situation a lot of food are provided. In this situation a lot of foods are prepared from different ingredients; meat, poultry, shellfish, fruits and vegetables, various menu are being served. Moreover, if relatives come and brings food, that would make the menu on our dining room more diverse in terms of food preparation, storage, handling, and cooking. I believe each person or family may not have exact same way of preparing their meal, thus when all people from different background comes together the food would have certain distinction. In relation to that, for example, we may find relatives whose highly concern about hygiene, they must have been assure the

It is time, at last, to speak the truth about Thanksgiving, and the truth is this. Thanksgiving is really not such a terrific holiday. Consider the traditional symbols of the event: Dried corn husks hanging on the door! Terrible wine! Cranberry jelly in little bowls of extremely doubtful provenance which everyone is required to handle with the greatest of care! Consider the participants, the merrymakers: men and women (also children) who have survived passably well throughout the years, mainly as a result of living at considerable distances from their dear parents and beloved siblings, who on this feast of feasts must apparently forgather (as if beckoned by an aberrant fairy godmother),

Hens also peck each other because of insufficient space. To avoid injury in this form the chickens beaks are cut off soon after they are born. After 18-24 months egg production slows and those hens are ready for slaughter. The Food Empowerment Project states that “Transporting hens to the slaughterhouse is an extremely traumatic event. Before they can be loaded into the trucks, they must be physically collected. Workers disperse throughout the shed and forcefully pull the exhausted hens from their cages. In the process, many of the hens suffer broken wings and legs. They are then loaded into transport crates and stacked onto large flatbed trucks. During transport, the unfamiliar sights, smells, sounds and movements cause severe stress.” Prior to these animals being killed they are kept in atrocious conditions and sadly it does not get any better for these animals at the

Beginning in the early 1600s, the Puritans and Indians were extremely belligerent towards each other. They did not trust each other enough to divide up the land amongst the two congregations, so the Puritans and Pilgrims decided to fight and enslave them. The longer the Indians and Pilgrims were in contact with each other, the more they realized they both wanted the same thing which was to survive and keep their crops abundant. After surviving an extensive drought, the enemies came together and celebrated the bountiful harvest they finally received after weeks of famine in June of 1621. The allies even said the famous “Thanksgiving Prayer” The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his