Analysis:

Dietary allusions

Europeans have been eating turkey for more than 400 years. Since16th century, Europeans have taken turkey as the main course of Christmas. No matter on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, turkey is an indispensable food at the celebration dinner. At this time, even relatives living in other places will put Christmas food such as potatoes, candied fruit, raisins, fruit cakes and vegetables on the table, and the main course in the middle is turkey. Americans have one more Thanksgiving to eat turkey than Europeans. It was in 1620 that 100 many English Puritans crossed the ocean to the east coast of North America to escape religious persecution, and half of them died of hunger and cold. With the enthusiastic help of Indians, these people were able to maintain their production and life. In the second year, the immigrants who had gained a foothold in their new home took out their harvested fruits and wild turkeys to entertain the Indians in order to thank God for their protection and help, and celebrated warmly for three days. Since then, Thanksgiving Day has been celebrated every year on this day-the last Thursday in June 1 1. Turkey has thus become the main course of Thanksgiving. No matter Europeans or Americans, there is only one way to eat turkey, that is, smoking and roasting, which is in sharp contrast with the colorful cooking methods in China.