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American Heritage recipes

A menu for a 1779 New England Thanksgiving included dishes from turkey and venison to pumpkin pie.

Daisy Bonner, who cooked for Franklin Roosevelt for twenty years in the Georgia White House, recalled his favorite dish.

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