The Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
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If you time-warped a few Pilgrims to your Thanksgiving table, they’d probably accuse you of being a witch. [YELLING] But they’d recognize a lot of the food, just bigger, better, and tastier versions of what they ate. Many traditional Thanksgiving foods are scienced up versions of native New World species. What may surprise you is that before DNA, genetics, or Europeans showed up, the original residents of the Americas had already been molding these foods for thousands of years, turning the wild and barely-edible into domesticated deliciousness. [OPEN] Despite the name, the turkey is from here. Ben Franklin preferred the gobbler over the eagle for America’s national bird, it was (in his words) “a true original Native of America.” Today, most of us can’t tell a snood ...
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If you time-warped a few Pilgrims to your Thanksgiving table, they’d probably accuse you of being a witch. [YELLING] But they’d recognize a lot of the food, just bigger, better, and tastier versions of what they ate. Many traditional Thanksgiving foods are scienced up versions of native New World species. What may surprise you is that before DNA, genetics, or Europeans showed up, the original residents of the Americas had already been molding these foods for thousands of years, turning the wild and barely-edible into domesticated deliciousness. [OPEN] Despite the name, the turkey is from here. Ben Franklin preferred the gobbler over the eagle for America’s national bird, it was (in his words) “a true original Native of America.” Today, most of us can’t tell a snood ...
