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• How Christmas pudding tried to 'save' the British Empire -- BBCTravel (22 December 2023)
  
  
• Anarsa: India's deep-fried taste of Diwali -- BBCNews (06 November 2023)
  
  
• Thanksgiving: Why some push back against the holiday's 'mythology' -- BBCNews (23 November 2022)
  
  
• ‘Traditions can change’: is it time to get rid of the Thanksgiving turkey? -- The Guardian (22 November 2022)
  
  
• Couple's Wedding Food List Sparks Debate Over Guests Being Left Hungry -- Newsweek (09 August 2022)
  
  
• From jelly to hummus: a history of street party food-- BBCNews (02 May 2022)
  
  
• 10 Lucky Foods for Your Chinese New Year Feast -- TasteofHome (26 January 2022)
  
  
• Haiti’s New Year’s Day soup has made headlines. But let’s not be naive about its symbolism -- The Guardian (01 January 2022)
  
  
• Food fighters: Spain’s annual Els Enfarinats battle – in pictures -- The Guardian (29 December 2021)
  
  
• How the turkey conquered Christmas [How a strange bird from Mexico became a Christmas staple] -- BBCFuture (16 December 2021)
  
  
• The evolutionary reason we eat so much at Christmas -- BBCReel (24 December 2020)
  
  
• Food History: Fruitcake (13:25) -- Mental Floss (23 December 2020)
  
  
• 'Thanksgiving To Go': Americans splash out on takeaways -- BBCNews (21 November 2020)
  
  
• A guide to navigating your virtual Thanksgiving -- MPRNews (20 November 2020)
  
  
• The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year -- The New York Times (17 November 2020)
  
  
• Pancake Day -- Ellen Castelow, HISTORIC UK
  
  
• How to cope with an eating disorder at Christmas -- BBCNews (21 December 2019)
  
  
• Chinese Roast Duck, but Make It Turkey -- The New York Times (18 November 2019)
  
  
• 'Sugar overload' warning for festive hot drinks -- BBCNews (03 December 2019)
  
  
• The First Thanksgiving -- The New York Times (13 November 2018)
  
  
• Japanese women push back against Valentine's tradition of 'obligation chocolate' -- The Guardian (11 February 2019)
  
  
• Venezuelans protest over pork shortages during Christmas -- BBCNews (28 December 2017)
  
  
• A Christmas menu dreamed up by a robot -- BBCfuture (18 December 1018)
  
  
• Pandoro Is Italy’s Christmas Miracle. Easter Is Another Story -- The New York Times (22 December 2017)
  
  
• The strange and twisted history of mince pies -- BBCfuture (08 Deceber 2017)
  
  
• Banned from the dinner table? Here's advice for talking politics during the holidays -- MPRNews (24 November 2017)
  
  
• It's not just politics. Food can stir holiday conflict, too -- MPRNews (22 November 2017)
  
  
• Celebration, resilience and food: What to eat at a powwow -- The Globe and Mail (12 November 2017)
  
  
• Spanish tomato record in annual Tomatina food fight -- BBCNews (30 August 2017)
  
  
• Inside the World's Largest Food Fight -- National Geographic (22 August 2017)
  
  
• Porcini doughnuts, artisan pizza, wine tasting: is this the future of festival food? -- TheGuardian (15 August 2017)
  
  
• Yulin dog meat festival begins despite rumours of ban -- BBCNews (21 June 2017)
  
  
• Why Japan celebrates Christmas with KFC -- BBCcapital (19 December 2016)
  
  
• The price of your Thanksgiving dinner — and where it came from -- Duluth News Tribune (23 November 2016)
  
  
• The Pecan Steps Off the Pie Plate -- The New York Times (04 November 2016)
  
  
• Wine Used in Ritual Ceremonies 5000 Years Ago in Georgia, the Cradle of Viticulture -- ScienceDaily (14 June 2016)
  
  
• As Chinese, Iranian and Indonesian As Apple Pie -- NPR (03 July 2016)
  
  
• The secrets of a Supreme Court diet -- BBC News (04 June 2016)
  
  
• For the First Time in 800 Years, Rice and Beans Are Kosher for Passover -- Smithsonian (21 April 2016)
  
  
• Big, bold, wild: Re-creating Christmas dinners of centuries past -- MPRNews (23 December 2015)
  
  
• A Brief History of Figgy Pudding -- Smithsonian (21 December 2015)
  
  
• How our bodies react to holiday food excess -- BBCNews (24 December 2015)
  
  
• Christmas dinners around the world -- BBCNews (24 December 2015)
  
  
• Memories from the dinner table serve as gift of the season: For some of us, holiday gifts are the memories from around the dinner table -- StarTribune (23 December 2015)
  
  
• China: Top officials' festive dinners go on sale -- BBCNews (23 December 2015)
  
  
• Americans Try Norwegian Christmas Food -- U.S. Embassy, Oslo
  
  
• How did Santa get hooked on cookies and milk? -- MPRNews (22 December 2015)
  
  
• Appetites: Celebrating Thanksgiving with indigenous foods -- MPRNews (25 November 2015)
  
  
• How The Ancient Romans Gave Us 'Bones Of the Dead' Cookies For Halloween -- Forbes (31 October 2015)
  
  
• National Waffle Day … but why? On the origin of food holidays -- YahooNews (24 August 2015)
  
  
• The Pagan Roots Of Easter -- Science 2.0 (02 April 2015)
  
  
• Luck Be A Lentil Tonight! What The World Eats To Welcome The New Year -- The Salt, NPR (31 December 2014)
  
  
• Americans love the Thanksgiving myth. But food folklore masks a painful reality -- Michael W Twitty, Guardian (24 November 2014)
  
  • A People’s History of Southern Barbecue -- Michael W Twitty, Afroculinaria (04 July 2015)
    
    
• Lidia Celebrates America: Weddings: Something Borrowed, Something New [India, New Orleans, Korean-American, Italian-American and Irish-American] -- PBS Lidia Bastianich (2012)

• Mexico’s whimsical Night of the Radishes -- BBC (22 December 2014)
  
  
• 12 Foods They Really Ate At The First Thanksgiving -- Huffington Post (08 November 2013)
  
  
• Albala, Ken. The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe. The University of Illinois, 2007.
  
  
• American Thanksgiving -- Food Timeline
  
  
• Ancient Sorcerer's "Wake" Was First Feast for the Dead? -- National Geographic News (30 August 2010)
  
  
• Baker, James W., and Peter J. Gomes. Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. New Hampshire, 2009.
  
  
• Beahrs, Andrew. Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens, NY: Penguin, 2010. [ Thanksgiving]
  
  
• Bray, Tamara L. The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires. Springer, 2003.
  
  
• Carey, Diana and Judy Large. Festivals Family and Food. Floris, 1996. [children's book]
  
  
• "The Coronation Ox," Ch. 6 of Bringéus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001.
  
  
• Countries / Cultures
  
  
  • Canada
    • Food festivals in Canada -- Wikipedia
      
      
  • Italy
    • Bianchi, Anne. Italian Festival Food: Recipes and Traditions from Italy's Regional Country Food Fairs. MacMillan, 1999.
    • Food festivals in Italy -- Wikipedia
    • Fraioli, James and Leonardo Curt. Food Festivals of Italy: Celebrated Recipes from 50 Food Fairs. Gibbs Smith, 2008.
    • Kostioukovitch, Elena. Why Italians Love to Talk About Food. NY: Farrar, Straus and Girous, 2006. [English translation by Anne Milano Appel, 2009]
      • includes information on city/community festivals
        
        
  • Mexico
    • Calendar of Mexican food festivals -- Mexconnec
      
      
  • Serbia
    • Food festivals in Serbia -- Wikipedia
      
      
  • United States
    • Food festivals in the United States -- Wikipedia
    • Taste of Chicago -- Wikipedia
      
      
  • United Kingdom
    • List of Food Festivals (United Kingdom) -- Wikipedia
      
      
• Dietler, Michael and Brian Hayden (Eds.). Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Pespectives on Food, Politics, and Power. University Alabama Press, 2010.
  
  
• First Clear Evidence of Organized Feasting by Early Humans -- ScienceDaily (30 August 2010)
  
  
• The First Thanksgiving -- Epicurious
  
  
• First Thanksgiving -- National Geographic Kids
  
  
• First Thanksgiving Meal -- HISTORY.com
  
  
• Fraioli, James and Leonardo Curt. Food Festivals of Italy: Celebrated Recipes from 50 Food Fairs. Gibbs Smith, 2008.
  
  
• Hall, C Michael and Liz Sharples. Food and Wine Festivals and Events Around the World: Development, management and markets. Butterworth-Heineman, 2008.
  
  
• Kavasch, E. Barrie. Enduring Harvests: Native American Foods and Festivals for Every Season. iUniverse, 2001.
  
  
• Kostioukovitch, Elena. Why Italians Love to Talk About Food. NY: Farrar, Straus and Girous, 2006. [English translation by Anne Milano Appel, 2009]
  • includes information on city/community festivals
    
    
• La Tomatina, Buñol, Valencia, Spain
  
  
• Levy, Walter. The Picnic: A History. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2013.
  
  
• Luard, Elisabeth. European Festival Food. London: Grub Street, 2009.
  
  
  • compare this with Luard, Elisabeth. European Peasant Cookery. London: Grub Street, 2007. [Be sure to read the "Introduction."]
    
    
• Naccarato, Peter, and Kathleen LeBesco. Culinary Capital. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2012.
  
  
• Oliver, Sandra L. Saltwater Foodways. Mystic Seaport Museum, 1970.
  
  
• Perl, Lila and Stanislao Dino Rigolo. Rice, Spice, and Bitter Oranges: Mediterranean Foods and Festivals. World, 1967.
  
  
• Russell, Tammy and Sarah Manning. Ingredients for a Jewish Life: Festivals, family and food. Robson, 2003.
  
  
• Thanksgiving History -- Plimoth Plantation
  
  
• Throwing Tomatoes at La Tomatina Festival, Bunol, Spain: World's Biggest Food Fight! -- YouTube
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• Visser, Margaret. The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.
  
  
• What Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving? -- Indian Country Today Media Network (23 November 2012)
  
  
• What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? -- Megan Gambino, Smithsonian (21 November 2011).