Giving Thanks: Thanksgiving Recipes and Historical past, from Pilgrims to Pumpkin Pie

Thanksgiving is the quintessential American vacation, with 97 % of People consuming turkey on that day. However past the chook, the menu is as diversified because the cultures of the nation’s melting pot—and each recipe tells a narrative.
Giving Thanks explores the scrumptious, fascinating historical past of Thanksgiving, full with trivia, recipes, and a tremendous assortment of archival imagery of the vacation’s historical past.

Good for folks, youngsters, academics, historical past buffs, and naturally Thanksgiving cooks,
Giving Thanks is a real souvenir cookbook, meant to be shared and loved yr after yr. Thanksgiving specialists Kathleen Curtin and Sandra L. Oliver and the world-famous Plimoth Plantation hint the colourful historical past of the vacation, from the story of “The First Thanksgiving” to twenty-first-century customs. Then the true enjoyable begins—a scrumptious assortment of greater than eighty recipes, from appetizers to desserts, old school mincemeat pies to trendy pumpkin cheesecake, generously seasoned with loads of fascinating trivia.

Giving Thanks reveals that there’s positively extra to Thanksgiving cookery than sage stuffing and pumpkin pie, highlighting favorites from all through the vacation’s historical past and from an unimaginable number of cultures. Recipes embody 5 alternative ways to arrange turkey, from Traditional New England to Indian and Cuban; Oyster Stew and Pomegranate and Persimmon Salad; Creamed Onions and Corn Pudding; and pies galore, from Cranberry Pear to Texas Buttermilk.

Crammed with a vibrant, fascinating assortment of Thanksgiving pictures and illustrations from Plimoth Plantation’s unparalleled archives,
Giving Thanks brings the historical past of Thanksgiving to life in an extremely scrumptious means.