The Surprising Origins of Thanksgiving Foods
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How turkeys got so big: https://www.wired.com/2008/11/turkeyt...
Benjamin Franklin’s 1784 letter to Sarah Bache about turkeys: http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/fr...
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McWilliams, James. The Pecan: A history of America's native nut. University of Texas Press, 2013.
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Speller, Camilla F., et al. "Ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals complexity of indigenous North American turkey domestication." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107.7 (2010): 2807-2812.
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