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Food History: requires testing! October 18, 2009

Posted by jdresner in doing history, historiography, not homework.
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Chris Bray passes on word of two experiences with early American food: Gingerbread cookies from Colonial Williamsburg and a pound cake taste test, pitting a modern recipe against a two-century old version which required an hour of hand-beating. See if you can figure out how “Pound Cake” got its name…

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