Bringing the Point Home {Harvest Home, That Is...}

News flash for thanksgiving, heard over CBC Radio One:

Ooooh, gurgled the British voice excitedly, it's possible to compose a Canadian thanksgiving menu entirely of food from Canada!

Yea, verily, my dear lady; you have indeed stumbled upon the very point of having a harvest celebration in the first place.

To be fair, I did come in halfway through the conversation; and the exclamation was prompted when reference was made to Mrs. Isabella Beeton, "the inventor of the modern cookbook" and how Mrs. Beeton had described turkey as a Canadian bird (?!?!?). So more than likely it was a discussion on Canadian vs. American Thanksgiving culinary traditions; and under such circumstances, a comment like that is to be expected.

But, then again, the more fool me: further research would seem to indicate that the quote above may have inadvertently been, in point of fact, not too far off the mark...

Posted by edgar at October 13, 2003 09:25 AM