All posts tagged "food"
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3.2KConnecticutCalorie Counting Gets Its Start in Connecticut
For most of human history food was something you found or grew and then gladly ate to stay alive. There was little...
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55.0K8Arts and LeisureItalian Thanksgiving, or How One Ethnic Group Resisted Americanization
The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....
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6.7KArts and LeisureJacques Pepin, French From Connecticut
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...
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5.8KArts and LeisureThe Mark Twain Fantasy Menu
Mark Twain liked a good meal, a good cigar and a good cocktail. During a trip to Europe in the 1880s, he...
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14.7K1New HampshireHow the Londonderry Scots-Irish Saved New Hampshire from Massachusetts
The Londonderry Scots-Irish prevented New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by multiplying along the border and fighting the town across it. Massachusetts...
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7.1KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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