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1) The first national Thanksgiving Day, proclaimed by President George Washington, was celebrated on Nov. 26, 1789, the LAST Thursday of the month.
2) In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving an annual holiday to be commemorated on the LAST Thursday in November.
3) a) Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the official Thanksgiving Day from the LAST Thursday to the THIRD Thursday in November.
b) Roosevelt felt the last Thursday was too close to Christmas (especially when the last Thursday fell on November 30, as it did in 1939)
c) Congress specified the FOURTH Thursday in November (which is not always the LAST).
4) In Canada Thanksgiving Day is a legal holiday celebrated on the second Monday in October.
(In 1710 at Port Royal, N.S. a day of thanksgiving was held when the town passed into English hands for the last time. In 1760 a day of thanksgiving was held in Halifax to mark the victory of General Amherst's troops at Montreal. In 1762 Halifax held a day of thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. In 1879 a national Thanksgiving Day was declared. After World War I it was combined with Armistice Day for some years. Finally, in 1931 it was made a separate holiday to be celebrated on the Second Monday in October.)
5) False. All except Mexico celebrate an annual Thanksgiving holiday.
6) a) Caruncle.
b) Snood.
c) Wattle.
d) Beard.
7) a) Wild turkeys can fly up to 55 miles per hour for short distances (about 1/4 mile).
b) Wild turkeys can run up to 20 miles per hour.
8) The Transylvania Naked Neck Chicken is often called Turken. Some people think it is a cross between a chicken and a turkey because of the unfeathered area on the neck. This skin turns red when exposed to the sun, further paralleling the turkey. However, this is actually the result of a single gene that affects the arrangement of feather-growing tracts over the chicken's body. It can be easily introduced into any breed. Turkens have no feathers on a broad band between the shoulders and the base of the skull.
Here is a Photo of this chicken: www.poultrypages.com/trns.htm
9) Benjamin Franklin in a letter to his daughter, Sarah Bache.
10) c) Creamy white with red/brown speckles.
11) 3,500 feathers.
12) 28 days.
13) 13%
14) The typical 15 pound turkey is 70% white meat and 30% dark meat. White meat has fewer calories and less fat than dark meat.
15) Turkeys are closely related to grouse, quail and pheasants.
16) Turducken is a Cajun Thanksgiving specialty. Start with a chicken, debone it and wrap it in a deboned duck, surround that with scoops of stuffing and put the whole assembly inside a deboned turkey. A turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken. There is also a pigturducken!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Chef James
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