First Thanksgiving

*Directions: find the 14 proofreading mistakes.

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared an Autumn harvest feast which is know as the first Thanksgiving. While cooking methods and table etiquette has changed as the holiday has evolved, the meal is still consumed today with the same spirit of celebration and overindulgence

The pilgrims didn’t use forks; they ate with spoons, knives, and their fingers. They wiped there hands on large cloth napkins which were also used to pick up hot morsels of food. Salt would have been common to see on the table at the harvest feast, and people would have sprinkled it no their food. Pepper, however, was something that they used from cooking but wasn’t available on the table.

In the Seventeenth century, a person’s social standing determined what she or she ate. The best food was placed next to the most important people. People didn’t tend to sample everything that was on the table (as we do today), they just ate what was closet to them.

The pilgrims probably didn’t have pies or anything sweat at the harvest feast. They had brought some sugar with them on the mayflower but by the time of the fast, the supply had dwindled. Also, they didn’t have and oven so pies, cakes and breads would not have been possible at all.