If you want to have an authentic Thanksgiving dinner throw out the turkey and start preparing some eel. David Swartz explains at The Anxious Bench:
More history to ruin your Thanksgiving spirit: There were no sweet potatoes (not native to North America), cranberry sauce (no sugar available), or pumpkin pies (no butter or flour around for the crusts) either. So what was on the menu besides herons? Probably fish, eel, and perhaps a few garden vegetables like collard greens, parsnips, and turnips. The setting wasn’t conducive to a fancy feast either. Tables and chairs were scarce. The Pilgrims probably didn’t have knives, or even forks, which were dismissed by the middling folk of England as a “foppish pretension.”
So if you really want to be authentic tomorrow, eat some eel and turnips while sitting cross-legged on the cold ground.
Yum!
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