Thanksgiving-themed episodes of cooking television open up questions about the interrelations of food, history, power, and culture. This study addresses such questions through textual and thematic analysis of 46 Thanksgiving-themed episodes of reality cooking competition programmes on US cable TV, exploring how the Thanksgiving episode operates as a site for the deployment of the culinary as a category by which the past is re/created. I argue that the Thanksgiving episode represents history through two frames: “tradition” and “reenactment.” Reading the Thanksgiving episode as a site of history's reconstruction illuminates popular media's involvement in the socio-historical-political machinery of contemporary life.

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重新加热“第一个”感恩节：作为定居者殖民叙事的感恩节插曲


以感恩节为主题的烹饪电视节目提出了有关食物、历史、权力和文化之间相互关系的问题。本研究通过对美国有线电视上 46 档以感恩节为主题的真人烹饪竞赛节目的文本和主题分析来解决这些问题，探讨感恩节剧集如何作​​为一个站点，将烹饪作为一个重新审视过去的类别。 /创建。我认为感恩节事件通过两个框架来代表历史：“传统”和“重演”。将感恩节事件视为历史重建的一个场所，揭示了大众媒体对当代生活的社会历史政治机制的参与。