For the past six years, teacher Jessica Lander of Lowell High School has worked with immigrant students in her U.S. History 2 seminar to write a cookbook. Each student brings a recipe from home. We hear from Lander, along with two students, about this year's book and what their dishes mean to them.
Hello and welcome to a special and slightly shorter than usual edition of This Week in History! As Thanksgiving rapidly approaches, I thought it would be a fun deviation from the norm of this column to answer a simple yet perplexing question: What did the Pilgrims and Wampanoags eat on the first Thanksgiving?