Qual é a origem do Thanksgiving?

Esta quinta-feira, 24 de novembro é o dia de ação de Graças (Thanksgiving) nos Estados Unidos. Com certeza você já deve ter visto muitas cenas desta festa em séries e filmes, mas você realmente sabe o que é esta celebração? Agora vai saber então! Leia o texto e compreenda-o com a ajuda do vocabulário:

Texto

Thanksgiving is a holiday in the USA and Canada when people give thanks. It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November in the USA. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thursday of November as a national Day of Thanksgiving. U.S. tradition compares the holiday with a meal held in 1621 by the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is continued in modern times with the Thanksgiving dinner, traditionally featuring turkey, playing a central role in the celebration of Thanksgiving.
In the United States, certain kinds of food are traditionally served at Thanksgiving meals. Firstly, baked or roasted turkey is usually the featured item on any Thanksgiving feast table (so much so that Thanksgiving is sometimes referred to as “Turkey Day”). Stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet corn, various fall vegetables (mainly various kinds of squashes, as butternut squash has in New England), and pumpkin pie are commonly associated with Thanksgiving dinner.

Vocabulário

holiday: no singular, dia feriado.
set aside: escolher, reservar.
meal: refeição
to hold: comemorar
Wampanoag: tribo nativa da costa leste dos EUA
pilgrim: peregrino. Os peregrinos foram os primeiros colonos da Nova Inglaterra (EUA).
to settle: estabelecer-se
to feature: incluir
turkey: perú
to bake: cozinhar no forno
to roast: assar
feast: banquete
stuffing: recheio (de um frango, perú, etc.)
mashed potatoes: purê de batata
gravy: molho
sweet potato: batata-doce
cranberry: mirtilo
sweet corn: milho doce

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