Thanksgiving
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The beekeeping club to which I belong (the Essex County Beekeepers' Association or ECBA) meets every month and nearly every winter meeting centers around a meal.
Several years ago, we celebrated our 75th anniversary and had a fabulous meal at our clubhouse that was catered by a couple of members, Ken and Ruth. They served up a wonderful bill of fare that included prime rib, honeyed winter squash and Ken's signature dish, Cherries in the Snow.
The recipe for Cherries in the Snow is highly s...
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News from the World Outside of Foodsville
Not Always Fresh, but Rarely Stale
Wednesday: November 21, 2007
Thanksgiving
Fight Hunger: Locate a Food Bank Near You
Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Bill of Fare, Marion House, Thanksgiving, 1864
Of Interest to Group: Thanksgiving
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Frying turkeys is not exactly avant garde these days, but it wasn’t until fifteen or twenty years ago that home cooks starting messing with it. It seems obvious that this process started in hunting camps where there is likely to be some source of heat and a large pot, but not much in the way of an oven and quite often no expertise atallatall. Lots of things can be fried and many outdoors types like fried food. Because Why? Probably because it’s bad for you and giv...
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There is a good article in today's on-line edition of the New York Times about 'Heritage' turkeys that includes information on how to come by them, what they are and the fact that it is probably too late to come by one for this Thanksgiving.
It is here.
Heritage Foods might still have some.
An Ojibwa Legend told to Henry R. Schoolcraft
Long, long ago, in a beautiful part of this country, there lived an Indian with his wife and children.
He was poor and found it hard to provide food enough for his family. But though needy he was kind and contented and always gave thanks to the Great Spirit for everything that he received. His eldest son, Wunzh, was likewise kind and gentle and thankful of heart, and he longed greatly to do something for his people.
The time came that Wunzh reached th...
[Editor's Note: For Thanksgiving, we'd like to post a wonderful story of food and family written by Louisa May Alcott in 1881. Applewood Books published a small paperback edition of this work sixteen years ago, and it is still in print.]
SIXTY YEARS AGO, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a houseful of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love, for the wide acres of wood, corn, and pasture land fed, warmed, and c...
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