Trips to Farmers Market and La Montanita Coop for Thanksgiving dinner bring subjects for harvest still life home to our kitchen. Colors and textures of fall vegetables are a visual feast as well as being delicious ingredients for family dinner for children home from college for holiday.
Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday. It began as a celebration of a massacre of 700 Pequot Indians in the northeast, but has been turned into a holiday perpetuating the American myth using the doctrine of "Manifest Destiny" to justify the conquest of the Americas.
Despite Thanksgiving's dubious origins, for generations, indigenous families have used the Thursday off in November to gather with family, share food, stories and laughter and celebrate the harvest more in keeping with the spirit of the Green Corn Dance held by American Indians for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans.
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Photos and text by Charleen Touchette 2009
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