Chowing down in 1621

SO, what did the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Native Americans eat on that storied Thanksgiving Day in Plymouth, Massachusetts? The actual menu, alas, is lost to history. But according to Harvard professor David D. Hall (and most historians), the gathered folk ate venison, Indian corn, fish – and wild turkey, a fowl species that “Pilgrim Edward Winslow reported were accumulated in abundance just before the celebration,” said Professor Hall.