All posts tagged "food history"
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7.4K3New HampshireCount Rumford, Woburn’s Answer to 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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85.0K34Business 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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25.1K12Business and LaborCracking the History of the Uncommon Common Cracker
Every so often when you’re looking through a book of old New England recipes, you’ll find one that calls for the common...
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38.7K42Business 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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17.4K26ConnecticutHow the Great Colchester Molasses Shortage Nearly Ruined Thanksgiving
Molasses played such a starring role in the colonial New England Thanksgiving that a shortage of it in 1705 forced Colchester, Conn.,...
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23.5K19ConnecticutThe Rise and Fall of the Wethersfield Red Onion
Every year in Wethersfield, Conn., the local historical society pays rent on an 18th-century warehouse not with money, but with Wethersfield red...
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