Gobble! Gobble! Thanksgiving Feasts by Marisa Masterson

 Ah! The turkey. I can easily conjure up the smell of it roasting in the oven. Does it bring to mind Thanksgiving for you, also?

Consider the sound we associate with it. Gobble! Gobble! Have you noticed the double meaning of that in connection with the holiday meal?

We think of it as a sound, true. Also, it is what happens at the meal. And that is one reason turkeys became the food of choice for the special day.

Homer Winslow's view of Thanksgiving

In the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving went from being a regional celebration to a national holiday. Communities would come together to celebrate. Turkeys provided enough meat--much more than chickens--to feed many people. And since it had been an early symbol of the feast, it became the choice for the holiday.

I remember my grandfather speaking about raising turkeys on his farm in the 1930s and 1940s. He would ship them to Chicago. Because of the appetite for the bird, his children received Christmas presents.

So, gobble, gobble up the meal this year and Happy Thanksgiving!

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