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Long before microwaves, electric stoves and refrigerators, early Virginians prepared meals in clay pots and iron kettles, and preserved food by smoking and salt curing. This Thanksgiving holiday, dig into the foodways of 17th- and 18th-century America during Foods & Feasts of Colonial Virginia.


Join in a 40+ year celebration of centuries-old culinary practices and cooking techniques of early Virginia during a two-day event, Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29.


At the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, explore 18th-century culinary practices of Virginia and learn about typical soldiers' fare during the war and trace the bounty of a Revolution-era farm from field to kitchen.


At Jamestown Settlement, a museum of 17th-century Virginia, visitors discover how food was gathered, preserved and prepared on land and at sea by Virginia's English colonists and Powhatan Indians.


Holiday Tickets & Packages
Admission is $20.00 for adults and $10.00 for ages 6-12. Save with a value-priced combination ticket to Jamestown Settlement: $34.00 adults, $17.00 ages 6-12. Children ages 5 and under are free. Free parking. Tickets and packages available with other Williamsburg area attractions, including a combination ticket, when purchased online, offers seven days of unlimited admission to both museums at $34.00 for adults and $17.00 for ages 6-12.


Food preparation in the museums' interpretive areas is for demonstration purposes only.


Special program funded in part by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc. Annual Fund.