CK launched

What better time of the year than the thanksgiving holidays for Common Kitchen to have its official launch?

CommonKitchen.com has officially launched! We’re not “done” in any sense, but most of the major pieces are in place.

If you haven’t visited the site in a few weeks, come on by and see what’s new: better searching (including restaurant searches based on location), recipe indexing from magazines, and food blogs for anyone who wants one.

We’ve posted a press release concerning this launch on our company website. Please feel free to send the link (or the entire announcement) on to anyone you know who might be interested in Common Kitchen. You can also use the “Invite a friend” link on the site itself if you want to get your friends involved.

And don’t forget to add your recipes! If those of you in the USA need last-minute Thanksgiving ideas, check our collection of recipes tagged “thanksgiving” . And after dinner on Thursday, come back and review the recipes, or use your food blog to tell us what you tried and how it worked! It’s your collective experience with the recipes on the site that makes the community work.

Misinfo, Pilgrim

Results from Google Search

It doesn’t really matter much that the US culture mistakenly venerates a celebration by early settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts as the first thanksgiving. Why? Well, the party is essentially a local variation on harvest celebrations that probably occurred before folks started recording their parties. But, just for the record, in North America, the pilgrims were not, pilgrim, the first to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. A group of immigrants who populated a settlement called Berkeley Hundred along the James River in Virginia were required by their charter from the king of England to celebrate a day of thanksgiving annually, beginning in 1619.