Spicy Hot Food Series: Part 1 Cooking With Hot Peppers Is Ancient History

Spicy roasted pumpkin seeds, recipes below I am starting a new series today on spicy foods before transitioning to a Thanksgiving serie...

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Who Got Out the Vote In Depression Era St. Louis?

St Louis style pizza, recipe below During the Depression poet Maya Angelou, born in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri lived with her Grandmother. ...

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Election Day Traditions in Boston

Election Day cake, recipes below I started talking about the role of food in electoral politics and get out the vote strategies last week (...

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Getting Out the Vote in North Carolina

Tomato bread pudding, recipe below In 1933 the Federal National Relief Agency (NRA) chose Tyron, North Carolina for one of its surplus ...

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Getting Out the Vote in North Carolina

Tomato bread pudding, recipe below In 1933 the Federal National Relief Agency (NRA) chose Tyron, North Carolina for one of its surplus ...

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Food Relief and Voters in Ohio

Mushroom risotto, recipes below Recently news outlets have been talking about the midterm elections. Some have also been reporting on ...

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Food and Get Out The Vote Strategies in Chicago

Brown betty, a simple but delicious hot apple breakfast dish, recipes below As mentioned in an earlier post, during the Depression, man...

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Electoral Politics and Food: The Gilded Age

Chicken and cornmeal dumplings soup, recipes below I started talking about the role of food in electoral politics on Wednesday. Yest...

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Get Out the Vote Machines Then and Now

Shaker pie, this and other lost pie recipes below Many political talking heads are arguing that the key to the tight senatorial races t...

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Electoral Politics and Food: A Steak in Your Vote

Tomahawk steak, recipe below I am starting a new foodways series today on “election day treating,” the historic practice of insuring v...

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Civil War Foodways Series: Charleston County, South Carolina

Molasses sticky buns, recipe below Many of the southern recipes that call for molasses may have originated during the Civil War when th...

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Civil War Foodways Series: Pots, Pans, and Grills

Cush, recipe and other links below The most well known dish during lean times on the battle field rebels called cush [sometimes coush]—corn ...

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Civil War Foodways Series: Black Cooks in Confederate Camps

Dandelion salad with beets and cheese, recipe below Throughout the U.C. Civil War, some confederate armies depended on the labor of ...

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Civil War Foodways Series: Becoming An Expert Cook

Wild huckleberries on a tree Huckleberry pie, recipes below When soldiers did obtain food they then had to confront a shortage of utens...

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Civil War Foodways Series: General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Scorched Earth Strategy

Stir fried sweet potato tops and s hrimp , recipe below Samuel H. Sprott was the son of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian immigrants born in 1...

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Civil War Foodways Series: The Battle of Appomattox

Pumpkin soup, pumpkin soup and bread recipes below William Joseph Miller of the 12 th South Carolina Regiment was born in 1845 in York...

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Civil War Foodways Series: The Commissary Department and Food Deliveries

Sweet Potato and Peanut Stew, recipe below The majority of the south went into the civil war with the view that they would quickly whip the ...

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Civil War Foodways Series:Care Packages From Home

Southern fried chicken, recipes below As we shall learn later, during the civil war the sweeteners representative one of the food items...

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Civil War Foodways Series: Cultural Differences on the Battle Field

Ash cakes, recipe below By the nineteenth century the majority of South majority poor white population enjoyed all parts of the hog, c...

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Civil War Foodways Series: African-American Cooks on the Battlefield

Peach fried pie, recipes below During the Civil War (1861-1865) both Confederate and Union soldiers very often depended on African-America...

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