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Cooking as a history lesson! With Thanksgiving fast approaching, News 12's Danielle Campbell looks back at what a colonial Thanksgiving looked like, Long Island style.
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Nov 8, 2019, 3:58 PM
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Updated 1,630 days ago
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Cooking as a history lesson! With Thanksgiving fast approaching, News 12's Danielle Campbell looks back at what a colonial Thanksgiving looked like, Long Island style.
STORY: Long Island's Hidden Past: A colonial Thanksgiving on Long Island
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Diane Schwindt stirs up history at the Ketcham Inn in Center Moriches, using a hearth from the 1600s. She believes by cooking up history, we get a more authentic taste of Long Island's past.
She says because Long Islanders were walking distance from the water, seafood was a big part of their diet. Eel and venison were classic choices. Schwindt says historical cooking gives you a sense of how hard it was to survive, which would have made Thanksgiving back then truly a day for thanks.
