All posts tagged "cooking"
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38.5K42Business and LaborFall River’s Famous Chow Mein Sandwich
When 17-year-old Barbara Wong arrived in Fall River, Mass., after World War II, she could hardly have known she would become the...
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13.6K12Business and LaborWas Fannie Farmer a Good Cook?
When Fannie Farmer approached Little, Brown & Co., to publish her cookbook in 1896, the company made her pay for printing the...
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18.2K3IrregularsClam Chowder the Jacques Pepin (and HoJo’s) Way
In his delightful autobiography, The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, Jacques Pepin describes his years working at Howard Johnson’s. He deeply...
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10.3K11MassachusettsMalcolm X and Martin Luther King in Boston: One City, Two Different Worlds
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...
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17.5K13ConnecticutBlack Kings and Governors of New England
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
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Free Recipes: Donuts to Parsnip Fritters in ‘Lessons in Cookery’
Free recipes were given to children in the Washington, D.C., public schools during the late 19th century. Teaching kids to cook was...
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