All posts tagged "food history"
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27.3K3MaineThe Needham, A Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
The Maine potato candy known as the needham has always stood in the shadow of the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers have...
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6.8K2Business and LaborThe Colonial Slade Mill Starts a Spice Empire in Revere, Mass.
When David and Levi Slade went into business with their father at his Slade mill in 1837, they had an idea. In...
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12.5K21ConnecticutHow the Italian Immigrants Came to New England
Italian immigrants put their stamp on New England as indelibly as any Puritan. New England, in fact, is the most Italian region...
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5.7K1MaineGod Gives Diet Advice to Maine Visionary Ellen Gould White
After she was hit in the face with a stone, Ellen Gould White received visions from God that gave the world the...
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28.0K8ConnecticutThe Female Food Riots of the American Revolution
Between 1776 and 1779, food shortages caused more than 30 food riots in the American colonies. Angry men and women accosted merchants...
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17.5K22Arts and LeisureMaine’s Great Clam Chowder War of 1939
A tomato-hating politician from Rockland set off the Maine clam chowder war of 1939 when he drafted a bill to criminalize clam...
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21.9K19Arts and LeisureArlo Guthrie Gets Arrested for Littering
A Thanksgiving dinner clean-up in 1965 launched Arlo Guthrie on a folksinging career, created an anti-war anthem and transformed an old church...
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2.6K2Arts and LeisureThe Boston Wherry Man Shakes Up New York
In August of 1860, D.U. Martin of Boston was the toast of New York, known as the wherry man, or by some,...
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4.1K4Science and NatureFrancis Herrick – The Lobster Doctor
If you love lobster, it’s not a Mainer you need to thank. Or even a Bay Stater. It’s Vermont’s Francis Hobart Herrick....
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2.7K4Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: King Arthur at the Food Fair
In 1896, the World’s Food Fair and Home Congress was hosted at Mechanic’s Hall in Boston. More than 200 food producers from...
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