All posts tagged "salt"
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20.4K17Business and LaborA Broke Connecticut Housewife Founds Pepperidge Farm
You can be forgiven for thinking Pepperidge Farm was founded by someone like Titus Moody, the old Yankee character who appeared for...
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13.5K12Business and LaborWas Fannie Farmer a Good Cook?
When Fannie Farmer approached Little, Brown & Co., to publish her cookbook in 1896, the company made her pay for printing the...
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21.3K16Business and LaborThe Middlesex Canal, New England’s Incredible Ditch
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
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29.0K29Crime and ScandalEmma Snodgrass, Arrested for Wearing Pants
Emma Snodgrass created a sensation in 1852 by showing up in Boston wearing pants. She was mocked, arrested and sent home to...
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9.7K16Arts and LeisureCatherine Beecher Reluctantly Shares a Plum Pudding Recipe
Catherine Beecher was the Martha Stewart of her day and, like Martha Stewart, lived in Connecticut (Hartford, not Westport). Harriet Beecher Stowe’s...
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60.5K24Business and LaborChild Labor Exposed: The Legacy of Photographer Lewis Hine
A camera made an improbable weapon against the growing evil of child labor in the early 20th century. Then, children as young...
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