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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALGIRDAS GRIGAITIS, ALAMY
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By Rachael Bale, ANIMALS Executive Editor
Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays, and that’s because good food is one of my favorite things. I love the classics: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top, and yes—green bean casserole. (One year my mom tried to skip the green bean casserole, so I drove down to the grocery store on Thanksgiving morning to pick up the ingredients for her. I would have made it myself, but my mom refuses to let anyone else in the kitchen on Thanksgiving.)
It turns out those aren’t the “classics” after all. Four centuries ago, when the Pilgrims and Wampanoags sat down at what later became known as the first Thanksgiving, New England’s woods were filled with game, and its waters teemed with fish. They likely feasted on venison, oysters, cod, ducks, and eels—which the Wampanoags taught the Pilgrims how to bait (with lobster meat!) and stomp out of the mud.
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