The First Thanksgiving
Ever wonder what the pilgrims and Indians actually ate at that fabled first Thanksgiving? Queens-based historic gastronomist and blogger Sarah Lohman can probably tell you. Lohman’s an old-timey-food-re-enactor who takes recipes from the past and recreates them to “95 percent authenticity.” She mostly does American food from the 18th and 19th centuries (see the 1750s “Chocolet puffs”), but she’ll venture into different eras as well—try her 1930s French Protestant “Huguenot Torte” (recipe below).
Lohman’s blog, Four Pounds Flour, is full of recipes, photos, videos, stories and other historically relevant gastronomical information. In a recent short documentary, the gastorian, we’ll call her, divulges her rigorous criteria for choosing a culinary re-creation: “I just see something that I think might taste good, and then I make it.” Read the rest of this entry »
