Thanksgiving
Is A Special Time
Real abundance is found when we join hands with those we love.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving
Day.
Partaking In Thanksgiving 2005
Traditional
Thanksgiving foods are sometimes specific to the day, and although some
of the foods might be seen at any semi-formal meal in the United States,
the meal often has something of a ritual or traditional quality. Many
Americans would say it's "incomplete" without cranberry sauce, stuffing,
and gravy. Other commonly served dishes include sweet potatoes, mashed
potatoes, dumplings, corn on the cob, green beans or green bean
casserole, peas and carrots, bread rolls, and a Waldorf salad. For
dessert, various pies are often served, particularly apple pie,
mincemeat pie, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie, with the
last three being particularly American.
Most
Thanksgiving turkeys are stuffed with bread crumbs and roasted. Sage is
the traditional herb added to the stuffing (also called dressing), along
with chopped celery and onions. Turducken, a turkey stuffed with a duck
stuffed with a chicken, is becoming more popular, from its Cajun base in
Louisiana. Deep-fried turkey is rising in popularity as well, requiring
special fryers to hold the large bird, and reportedly leading to fires
and bad burns for those who fail to take care when dealing with a large
quantity of very hot oil. In more recent years it is also true that as
the wild population of turkeys has rebounded in most of the US, some
will hunt and dress their turkey in the woods and then freeze it until
meal preparation.
The use of the turkey in the USA for Thanksgiving relates back to
Lincoln's nationalization of the holiday in 1863. Since a turkey could
feed more than a chicken, those were sent to the troops instead as a
more cost-effective feast.
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