Thanksgiving Dinner: History Designed It, And Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio Critiques It
Long Read via Fast Company Design
Forget what your kindergarten teacher taught you; there’s no such thing as the original Thanksgiving. “It’s a nice myth that was created in 1841,” says Andrew Smith, contributor to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, referencing the story we all know so well. “The Puritans—the pilgrims—they’d celebrate days of thanksgiving, but it was a day you spent in church thanking God for a bountiful harvest, or maybe a victory over the Indians. What you didn’t do was sit down and eat. That would be a frivolous activity.”
So where did Thanksgiving come from? Why are we eating this meal with our inlaws and second cousins?
…MorePosted on Wednesday, November 21st 2012
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