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This is a unique, interesting and often humerous book
on how various foods were developed in America, or accquired, often
by devious means, in order to fill the bellies and please the pallets
of our ancestors. The toil, drudgery and improvising of the Pilgrim
and Puritan female cooks is included. New England was America's first
"Bread Basket" and the "Sacred Cod" and "Blessed
Bean" were the first staples. Chapters in the book include: "The
Great Tomato War," "America's First Fruits," and "Candy,
Coffee and the Creature." |