奥拉餐厅
Aura’s

在大峡谷，我们有幸拥有许多在西南部沙漠中发现的可食用食物，有各种原生栖息地的植物和动物，从峡谷中潮湿和干燥的低洼沙漠，一直到8000英尺高的黄松高地。我们相信大部分观众来自于沙漠地区的四个角落,所以我的愿景是把这些家门口随处可见的沙漠食物做出特色，就像在幻影牧场的那些。几千年来，这个沙漠一直为人类提供了食物(新来的移民可能对大多数沙漠食物都不熟悉)。从它们的零售价格来看，现在是时候把感恩节变成一年到头的节日了。现在，我要开始美洲特有的主食了(至少在1492年以前是这样):
At the Grand Canyon, we are blessed with many of the edibles found in the desert southwest, with availability of plants and animals whose native habitat ranges from the Canyon’s low-lying desert, both wet and dry, all the way up 8,000 feet to Ponderosa pine elevations. Since we believe most of our audience comes from the desert regions of the four-corners states, though, my plan is to emphasize those foods of the desert one may stumble upon just a few steps from home, just like the ones at Phantom Ranch where our play is set. The desert has provided people with sustenance for thousands of years (though recent émigrés to it are unfamiliar with most desert foods). With grocery prices being what they are, the time seems ripe to turn to the desert to make thanksgiving a year ‘round event. For now, I’m going with a staple unique to the Americas (until 1492 anyway):

西南沙漠开胃菜 - 爆米花汤
Desert Southwest Entrée - Popcorn soup

炫耀一下了，为什么1491年普韦布洛印第安人的饮食中并没有这道开胃菜呢？其实在那个时期，这片陌生土地之外的地方都没有这道菜，因为世界上其它地方还没有发明电影，也没有听说过玉米。
It’s show biz, so why not this entrée from the Pueblo Indian diet of 1491 ? This wasn’t served outside of Terra Incognita at this time, however, because not only hadn’t the rest of the world invented movies yet; it hadn’t heard of corn, either.

饮料 - 刺木冷饮
Beverage - Ocotillo cooler

大峡谷的泉水正是因为刺木仙人掌的花朵而变甜了。
Grand Canyon springs water sweetened with flowers of the ocotillo cactus.

我们大多数客人的祖先都生活在远离我们这片陌生土地的地方。我的愿景是提供在哥伦布航海并带回“旧大陆”之前的各地美食，这些食物被现代文化误认为是属于他们自己的。(例如，西内无法想象他的俄罗斯地质学家朋友不喝伏特加会是什么样子。我问他，“用来做伏特加的土豆，从美洲传到俄罗斯之前，它怎么可能存在呢?” 哥伦布等人的好意，没有俄国人的帮助)他说“黑麦?”。我不知道。现在是用土豆做的。
The family ancestries of most of our guests lie in regions far removed from our Terra Incognita location. My plan is to offer foods prepared the way they were in many different lands before Columbus sailed and brought back to the “Old World” so many of the foods modern cultures consider their own. (Sine can’t imagine his Russian geologist friends without vodka, for instance. “But how”, I ask him, “could vodka exist before the potato it’s made from eventually got from the Americas to mother Russia?” Courtesy of Columbus etc. No help from the Russians) “Rye?” says he. I don’t know. It’s made from potatoes now.

这是我们这些原本不是来自那片陌生土地的人重新发现自己根源的一种方式。(顺便说一下，这还不包括丝兰，或者土豆。)
This is a way for those of us who do not originally hail from Terra Incognita to rediscover our roots. (That wouldn’t include yucca, or the potato, by the way.)

意大利
Italy

配餐 - 奶酪香草大饼
Side - Flatbread with cheese and herbs

在1491年的那不勒斯，他们还没有制作今天大家所说的“披萨”。这种那不勒斯普通百姓的主食并不是涂满番茄酱的，因为在1491年，西红柿在那片陌生土地之外还不为人知。它由小麦粉、橄榄油、猪油、奶酪和那不勒斯附近的新鲜香草调味而成，不管怎么说，它是1491年最接近“披萨”的食物。
In 1491 Naples, they didn’t make what everybody today calls “pizza”. This Naples staple of everyman’s diet is not smothered in tomato sauce, because in 1491 tomatoes were unknown outside of Terra Incognita. It is made of wheat flour, olive oil, lard, cheese, and seasoned with just the fresh herbs available around Naples. But it’s the closest anybody would have to “pizza” in 1491.