Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in Canada and the

United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the

preceding year. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada

and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Several other

places around the world observe similar celebrations. Thanksgiving has its

historical roots in religious and cultural traditions and has long been celebrated

in a secular manner as well.

The Pilgrim FathersIn 1620 a group of people left the south coast of England to live in America. They arrived in November, and many of them died during that first winter. The local tribe, the Wampanoag Indians, taught these Europeans how to plant corn andcatc the local fish.as a result, the following autumn the settlers had collected enough food to survive the winter. As a thank you, the Europeans invited the native Americans to a feast which lasted theree days. Unfortunately, this was one of thefew examples where the Europeans cooperated with the local people.

Nationals Day of CelebrationThe early European Americans were a religious people and many had feast in the autumn to give thanks that they had enough to eat, but it wasn’t until hundreds of year later than Thanksgiving became a national celebration.

A writer and magazine editor called Sarah Josepha Hale spent 30 years trying to get the governement to create a national day of celebration. Finally, in 1863, President Lincoln agreed.

Now Americans in every state sit down with family and firends to eat 46 million turkeys!

What to eat on Thanksgiving Squash soup, roasted turkey, potatoes, sweet

potatoes, green beans and carrots.

Don’t forget the cranberry sauce and traditional cornbread. End with apple pie or pumpkin pie!

Pumpkin piePumpkin pie is a sweet dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling. In the United States it is usually prepared for Thanksgiving. The pumpkin is a symbol of harvest time.

The pie consists of a pumpkin-based custard, ranging in colour from orange to brown, baked in a single pie shell, rarely with a top crust. The pie is generally flavored with cinnamon, powdered ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. Allspice is also commonly used, and can replace the clove and nutmeg as its flavor is similar to both combined. Cardamom and vanilla are also sometimes used as batter spices. The spice mixture is called pumpkin pie

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day ParadeIn the 1920s one of New York’s most famous departement stores began a parade through the streets of the city to celebrate thanksgiving. Employees of macy’s wore fanatastic costumes aking lions and tigers through the syreets. Now the parade is famous for its fifteen enormous balloons depicting favourite children’s characters such asK the Frog or Snoopy, Toothless the Dragon or Paddington Bear.

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