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Article: TRADITIONAL TREASURES FOR THANKSGIVING.(Living)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2002
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Byline: Jane Elder Special to The Post
As you sit down for Thanksgiving, you may see the familiar faces of family and friends.
Chances are, you'll see some familiar culinary friends too -- the traditional dishes of the American Thanksgiving dinner.
But what do we know about the foods that have come to define Thanksgiving? And how have these species flourished in the Americas, surviving thousands of years to provide yet another example of how our history, our culture and our survival are intimately connected to biodiversity?
* At the core of most Thanksgiving tables, we find the turkey. The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an ...