| Show I 1 thanksgiving dinner in 1621 hardly what would be considered much of a special spread today A modern transplanted to puritan new england give ninny many thanks over thanksgiving day dinner cranberries were available in 1621 and wild turkey it if the head of the house was a good marksman there were nut trees in the woods and wild grapes but the acock of perishable foodstuffs was meagre probably grain was to be had to supplement the small supply of indian corn but butter milk and eggs were almost unheard of in plymouth years ago maybe they had potatoes in 1621 but if 1 they did they came by ship A modern expert in nutrition given a puritan thanksgiving dinner to an aleze would have several conniption tits fits dr walter 11 eddy points out in good housekeeping that he would find flew green vegetables no milk a high preponderance of proteins and acid ash wild fruits may have helped to avert scurvy says doctor eddy but this disease was always imminent so la the winter and probably much oz at the so called winter were due to scorbutic joints pneumonia and what was called consumption wiped out whole families in old new england doctor eddy points out because the food did not have the proper vitamin content |
