All posts tagged "food history"
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10.1K3Business and LaborThe 70-Cent Knife That Brought Julia Child to Cambridge, Mass.
Julia Child had a pet peeve: kitchen knives. They were never sharp enough for the beloved French chef. She sometimes swore a...
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5.3K4Business and LaborBrownie Schrumpf, The First Foodie of Maine
Brownie Schrumpf was only 4’11” but she had a monumental impact on the way Mainers eat. Over a 70-year career she was...
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5.6K14Business and LaborThe Birth of New Haven’s Famous White Clam Apizza
A peasant meal brought from 19th century Italy evolved into New Haven’s famous white clam apizza, praised as an ‘intoxicating combination of...
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8.6K14Business and LaborFlashback Photos: New England’s Love Affair With Ice Cream
New England’s long love affair with ice cream burst into full flower with the soda fountain, where it was served, and the...
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15.6K15Business and LaborThe Great Whoopie Pie Controversy
Did the Whoopie Pie originate in New England or Pennsylvania? New England claims the treat as its own, while Pennsylvania argues Amish...
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12.5K15Business and LaborThe Maine Ship Captain Who Invented the Modern Donut
In 1847, a Maine ship captain invented the donut as we know it today – with a hole. On the day Lewis...
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15.4K3Business and LaborRhode Island Food Lore: The New York System Wiener
In the annals of Rhode Island food traditions, the New York System wiener is probably the most misleading. New Yorkers know nothing...
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13.4K3Business and LaborJames Cook Ayer, Sarsaparilla King of Lowell, Mass.
In 1843, James Cook Ayer mixed up a cherry cough medicine in a Lowell, Mass., apothecary while his boss was on vacation...
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5.8K3Arts and LeisureThe Great Fannie Farmer Cookbook Controversy
When a highbrow critic gave a scathing review of the 11th edition of the Fannie Farmer cookbook in The New York Review...
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4.4K3New HampshireCount Rumford, The Loyalist Ben Franklin
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
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