All posts tagged "food history"
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20.8K17Business 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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18.6K3Business 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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15.3K3Business 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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7.4K3Arts 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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5.2K3New 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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77.2K34Business and LaborThe Revolutionary Roots of the Fluffernutter Sandwich
You can count the fluffernutter sandwich among Paul Revere’s many descendants along with Tony award-winning actress Anne Revere and Civil War Gen. Joseph...
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