Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanksgiving Day was even then an old tradition, of course. The first one had been celebrated in 1619 at the Berkeley settlement near Jamestown, Va., and this year the same feast was re-created at Berkeley Plantation, as it traditionally is, with an outdoor turkey roast on the first...
...tradition, at least-considers the first Thanksgiving to have been the conciliation in 1621 between the hungry Pilgrims at Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians, who had helped them to grow food. At Memorial Hall, near Plymouth Rock, this week, some 2,000 people will gather at the customary turkey feast that has come to be shared across the land as a kind of national communion. Says Carolyn Kneip of Plymouth: "If the Pilgrims returned today to see what they had started, they would be dumbfounded-and rilled with pride...
...moved on to the kitchen to assemble a total woman's cookbook for publication next spring. Her recipes lean heavily on their titles (Heavenly Peach Pie, Boudoir Cheesecake), and her menus on their scenarios. Thus the You Tiger You meal features a hearty beef Stroganoff and a Reconcile Feast includes stuffed pork chops and coconut cream pie. "It's so important," she insists, "to furnish men happy moments at mealtime." Her husband Charlie takes a judicious view of total cookery. "All things being equal," he says, "I'd rather have a nice meal than not have...
...always the first to arrive, lured by the scent of horse meat, beef and freshly killed chicken left at the edge of a desert road. Soon they are followed by other predators: wolves, jackals, hyenas and occasionally even a leopard. One after another, they partake of the roadside feast, while ignoring the nearby human observers. This remarkable nocturnal ritual is repeated once every two weeks at five locales in the bleak wastes of the Negev and Judean deserts, supervised by Israel's Nature Reserve Authority...
...pollitics better than their food on the table," says Alabama Senator Maryon Allen. With contests last week for the governorship, both U.S. Senate seats and many lesser offices, Alabama's Democratic primary runoff-tantamount to election in a state where Republicans are still considered carpetbaggers-was a veritable feast. And the voters tried a little of everything. Experience counted, but then it didn't. A new face was helpful, but then it wasn't. The voters were inscrutable...