Vegetarians have protested the holiday of Thanksgiving and it’s ritual of eating turkey for many years, but perhaps the oldest known vegetarian against Thanksgiving was John Harvey Kellogg from the late 19th-early twentieth century. The same man who ran a sanatarium, invented corn flakes and other cereals, and popularized the use of peanut butter as a health food was very against Thanksgiving. In 1894, his wife, Ella Kellogg, wrote and published an entirely vegetarian Thanksgiving meal, which included a “mock turkey” shaped like a real turkey.
Source: Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America p.543
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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.
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