Political Culture and Culinary Traditions
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
The election of Abraham Lincoln in part started the US Civil War in 1861. During the war (1861-1865) Union and Confederate cooks still came together to agree on a “standard” Thanksgiving Day menu. One source described it as a “most imposing stuffed turkey, cranberry sauce, turnips, [and] pumpkin” pie. Try and to come together and break bread over those things you can agree on. More often than not we have more in common than difference.
