14 November 26, 2014 2014 HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com
Puppets, not balloons
The first balloons in the Macy’s parade
were not balloons, but giant puppets. In
1927 renowned puppeteer Anthony Sarg
designed Felix the Cat and other characters.
The large inflatable characters were made
of silk and filled with oxygen. The puppets
were held up by “puppeteers” consisting of
Macy’s employees.
The helium filled balloons were introduced
in 1928.
The Turducken may not have been
an American original
While Paul Prudhomme was the first to
pen the recipe for the Turducken, was he
really the first? Prudhomme’s recipe was
published in the 1980’s and called for the
stuffing together of three birds -- a chicken
inside a duck inside a turkey.
However, there is a long European history
going back to the 1700’s of boning and
binding fowl into one dish. In the 1850’s a
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