All posts tagged "food history"
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13.9K15Business and LaborNew England Has an Ice Cream Love Affair
New Englanders eat more ice cream than people in any other part of the United States, according to some statistics. The reasons...
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24.2K16Business 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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27.6K17Business 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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26.4K3Business 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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27.4K3Business 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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11.5K3Arts 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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