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Why Do We Eat Certain Foods at Thanksgiving?

Above: a 19th-century artist’s depiction of “The First Thanksgiving in New England,” printed in the November 24, 1898 edition of the Ainsworth Star-Journal.

When Americans sit down with their families for Thanksgiving dinner, many of them fill their bellies with the same traditional Thanksgiving menu, including turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and pumpk…