Presentazione Shakespeare

1. CORN
What’s in a word?

2. wheat
What do you call this?
maize
corn
corn
oat

3. Corn: Who, When, & Where?
Native Americans
or
American Indians
A long time before the Maya
Civilisation
From Chile to Virginia
From Brazil to California

4. When did the English first discovered
corn?
Thanksgiving

5. Thanksgiving
at present time
The fourth Thursday in
November
A national holiday
It’s a time for families to get
together and give thanks for what
they have.
Schools, offices and many shops
are closed until Sunday making
it a long weekend
The Americans may travel long distances
to be with their family and friends
It is the most American holiday of all

6. food They eat a dinner of roast turkey*
and autumn vegetables:
Corn
Potatoes
Yams*
Cranberry sauce*
Pumpkin pie*
A big 30 – 40 pound stuffed turkey
Yams
Sweet potatoes
Cranberry sauce

7. PARDON TURKEY
presidential pardon of a turkey
Each year the president of the US pardons a
turkey and spares it from being eaten for
Thanksgiving dinner.
The first turkey pardon ceremony started with
President Truman in 1947

8. President Obama pardons a 45-pound turkey named Courage
Thanksgiving 2014

9. Different ways of eating corn
salad
baked Corn ball
Cornbread
Salted corn

10. FIRST THANKSGIVING
November 1621
English and native Americans ate together for three days
What for?

11. November 1620
102 Puritan reformers
On the Mayflower
WHY?
To escape religious persecution back
in England (King James I) and to find a
land where to profess their
faith freely
The Pilgrim Fathers
They sailed to America

12. The route
The trip took 66 days
They left from Plymouth
They landed near Cape Cod

13. Many Native American tribes lived in that area

14. South-East Massachusetts
Wampanoag
Corn, Beans and Squash are
three of the main traditional
crops for the Wampanoag
Maize or corn beans squash
cornbread
Chicha

15. Back to the Pilgrim Fathers
• They arrived in December
• First winter very difficult
• Very little food because it was too late to grow
any crops
Many pilgrims died
from 102 to 44

16. The native Americans showed the survived Pilgrims
how to grow crops ( corn and other plants)
Together is better

17. • The surviving Pilgrims worked hard during
the spring and summer

18. They had a great harvest and they
wanted to thank God

19. Harvest feast
The Pilgrim Fathers invited the Indians who helped them
It lasted three days

20. First meal together
• Roasted deer
• Corn
• shellfish

21. A national holiday
President Lincoln
In 1863 he declared
Thanksgiving a holiday
to give thanks for
«general blessing»

22. Grain maize in the UK
It is grown mainly for FORAGE
The summer there is not warm enough
to grow maize for grain

23. but
Earlier maturing varieties
Rising summer temperatures
New interest in the crop

24. The demand for grain maize in the UK is
OVER
1.25 million tonnes
annually

25. Sweetcorn
Cornflakes
Main products