This Thursday's Thanksgiving celebration in America represents something far from the original purpose.  These days, it is more about Thanksgiving Day parades, sports, mattress sales, and crowded airports.  But still, it remains a time to give thanks, and join with family and friends to partake in a groaning board of food.  It is a holiday for foodies!  And I love photographing the many fruits and vegetables that are available to us almost as much as I do eating them, beginning with one of the foods that was grown and used among indigenous peoples at the time the Puritans and explorers arrived on this continent - corn - a variety of which is shown here.  

Another food that originated in the New World food is the potato.  My guess is that the fingerling potatoes shown below are a cultivar of one of the 4,000 plus varieties world wide.  Peru alone has 3,000 types of potatoes.     

And Thanksgiving in New Mexico probably would not be complete without at least one type of pepper included somewhere in the meal.

Onions, apples, and mushrooms are all possible ingredients of the dressing with which a turkey, goose, or duck might be stuffed.  

onions, purple 1 2024 Food - mushrooms, Newcastle Farmers' Market 3 2024 apples 2

And somewhere on the table is a salad, perhaps made with beautiful Romaine lettuce, as a complement or palate cleanser.

Food - Romaine lettuce from Farmers' Market 2024

Thanks to Steve, Pater, Marilyn G., Barbara F. R., M. Fred B., and Catherine for commenting on last week's blog.  I am grateful to all of you who read every Monday and thereby participate in my grand photographic experiments.  Have a wonderful and tasty Thanksgiving!

until next Monday,

DB

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