Pass the cranberries--and eel.

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To commemorate the 1621 feast enjoyed by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag Indians in Massachusetts, Americans ate 46 million turkeys last Thanksgiving. What many people don't realize, however, is that eel was likely also on the menu at that first Thanksgiving dinner, and would have had special significance to those colonists. We all know the story of Sguanto, the English-speaking Patuxet Indian who taught the Pilgrims who survived their first brutal winter how to plant corn. But before he taught them about corn, he showed them...