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1. www.history.com › topics › thanksgivingWhat Was Eaten at the First Thanksgiving? - HISTORY

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   Nov 18, 2011 · For many Americans, the Thanksgiving meal includes seasonal dishes such as roast turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. The holiday dates back to November 1621 ...

2. historyofmassachusetts.org › the-first-thanksgivingHistory of the First Thanksgiving

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   What Did the Pilgrims Eat on the First Thanksgiving? Many dishes served during modern Thanksgiving meals were not present at the first Thanksgiving. The colonists didn’t have potatoes, nor did they have butter or flour necessary for making pies. The pilgrims hadn’t even built their first oven by the time of the first Thanksgiving.

3. www.mashed.com › 1697261 › foods-surprisingly-eaten13 Foods That Were Surprisingly Eaten At The First Thanksgiving

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   Nov 2, 2024 · Geese, duck, and swan satiated the roughly 140 attendees of the first Thanksgiving, but that doesn't mean that petite fowl like pigeons were excluded. Edward Winslow's writing of the first Thanksgiving gives some telling information about the colonists' preparation for the three-day feast.

4. newengland.com › yankee › historyWhat Did the Pilgrims Eat at the First Thanksgiving?

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   Nov 23, 2021 · What They (Likely) Did Have at the First Thanksgiving. Venison. Fowl (geese and duck) Corn. Nuts (walnuts, chestnuts, beechnuts) Shellfish. So venison was a major ingredient, as well as fowl, but that likely included geese and ducks. Turkeys are a possibility, but were not a common food in that time. Pilgrims grew onions and herbs.

5. www.lovetoknow.com › celebrations › thanksgivingWhat Did They Eat at the First Thanksgiving? An Historical ...

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   Sep 8, 2022 · Historical Records About Foods at the First Thanksgiving. In a letter dated December 11, 1621, Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow offers some of the only historical information about what they ate at the first Thanksgiving. After noting that the colonists had harvested a good crop "Indian corn" and an acceptable crop of barley but lost their ...

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6. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › what-was-on-theWhat Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? | Smithsonian

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   Nov 21, 2011 · Senior Editor. November 21, 2011. Traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes but the First Thanksgiving likely included wildfowl, corn, porridge and venison ...

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   What did the colonists eat at the first Thanksgiving?

   • Many dishes served during modern Thanksgiving meals were not present at the first Thanksgiving. The colonists didn’t have potatoes, nor did they have butter or flour necessary for making pies. The pilgrims hadn’t even built their first oven by the time of the first Thanksgiving.

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   What did pilgrims eat on Thanksgiving?

   • Norton mentions walnuts, chestnuts, and other small nuts as part of the food available to Pilgrims. Nuts may have been part of stuffings and stews eaten at the first Thanksgiving, or they may have been roasted and eaten on their own.

   What Did They Eat at the First Thanksgiving? A Historical Look

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   What do Americans eat on Thanksgiving?

   • For many Americans, the Thanksgiving meal includes seasonal dishes such as roast turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie.

   What Was Eaten at the First Thanksgiving? - HISTORY

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   What foods were served at the first Thanksgiving?

   • But if one were to create a historically accurate feast, consisting of only those foods that historians are certain were served at the so-called “first Thanksgiving,” there would be slimmer pickings. “Wildfowl was there. Corn, in grain form for bread or for porridge, was there. Venison was there,” says Kathleen Wall. “These are absolutes.”

   What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? | Smithsonian

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   What did the colonists eat at the harvest celebration?

   • Another letter, written by William Norton in November of 1621 does not specifically address the foods at the harvest celebration but does talk about the things the colonists ate. Norton mentions walnuts, chestnuts, and other small nuts as part of the food available to Pilgrims.

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   Why did the colonists celebrate Thanksgiving?

   • Celebrating a fall harvest was an English tradition at the time and the pilgrims had much to celebrate. The 53 pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving were the only colonists to survive the long journey on the Mayflower and the first winter in the New World. Disease and starvation struck down half of the original 102 colonists.

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8. www.familysearch.org › en › blogWhat Did the Pilgrims Eat at the First Thanksgiving?

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   Nov 22, 2023 · The answers might surprise you. 1. Turkey. There’s a good chance the Pilgrims and Wampanoag did in fact eat turkey as part of that very first Thanksgiving. Wild turkey was a common food source for people who settled Plymouth. In the days prior to the celebration, the colony’s governor sent four men to go “fowling”—that is, to hunt for ...