TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) -- This Thanksgiving season is a time to come together and look back at where we've been.
Mission San Luis is hosting Giving Thanks: 17th-Century Food Traditions.
This annual event, now in its 8th year, "helps us to understand the power of food to connect people to the past, place, and other people."
Giving Thanks gives you the chance to learn how people and foods from the New World and Old World came together at Mission San Luis.
As experts explain, "When the cultures of the New and Old World came together in La Florida, new and old food sources did not immediately find their way into the pot. Surrounded by a wealth of corn, the Spanish settlers dreamed of wheat. The Apalachee people continued to cook beans, corn, and squash as they had done for hundreds of years."
Activities include living history interpreters demonstrating cooking over a fire pit and smoking meat and fish on a barbacoa, hands-on archery and historic black-powder weapon firing demonstrations
Giving Thanks: 17th-Century Food Traditions is Saturday, November 28 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Mission San Luis (2100 W. Tennessee).
Tickets are $5 for adults; $3 for seniors and $2 for children 6-17. Kids under 6, members and active duty military are free.
For more information, call (850) 245-6406 or click here.
