All posts tagged "cooking"
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32.6K3bostonThe Hope and Despair of Acadian Exiles, 1755-1766
In the winter of 1755, two Marshfield, Mass., selectmen knocked on the door of the Michel family, seven Acadian exiles. They brought...
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14.5K4bostonThe Woman Suffrage Cook Book Prints Recipes for Subversion
Putting together the first woman suffrage cook book in 1886 must have been a lot like herding cats for Hattie A. Burr...
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10.7KBusiness and LaborJanette Kelley, The Woman Behind Betty Crocker, Buys a House in Norwell, Mass.
Janette Kelley was one of the first women behind Betty Crocker. For a time she lived in Massachusetts in what is known...
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4.9KMassachusettsEllen Henrietta Swallow – MIT’s First Woman Student
In the late 1800s, Ellen Henrietta Swallow broke down barriers to women not by casting off the duties assigned to them, but...
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38.8K4Business and LaborPercy Spencer Melts a Chocolate Bar, Invents the Microwave Oven
Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II –...
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13.8K3Arts and LeisureA Fulfilling Story: New England Pie History
In the annals of pie history, New England holds a special place. Pumpkin pie might not have happened without New England, where...
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