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The Truth about Baked Beans

Name: The Truth about Baked Beans
ISBN: 9781479870646

An Edible History of New England

Meg Muckenhoupt,

461 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

The Truth about Baked Beans

An Edible History of New England

Meg Muckenhoupt,

About this book

The author of Cabbage: A Global History forages through New England's most famous foods for the truth behind the region's culinary myths.

Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? You may have heard that the Pilgrims learned the dish from Native Americans, but the recipe was actually the result of a conscious effort in the late nineteenth century to create New England foods. New England foods were selected and resourcefully reinvented from fanciful stories about what English colonists cooked prior to the American revolution—while pointedly ignoring the foods cooked by contemporary New Englanders, especially the large immigrant populations who were powering industry and taking over farms around the region.
The Truth About Baked Beans explores New England's culinary myths and reality through some of the region's most famous foods: baked beans, brown bread, clams, cod and lobster, maple syrup, pies, and Yankee pot roast. From 1870 to 1920, the idea of New England food was carefully constructed in magazines, newspapers, and cookbooks, often through fictitious and sometimes bizarre origin stories touted as time-honored American legends. This toothsome volume reveals the effort that went into the creation of these foods, and lets us begin to reclaim the culinary heritage of immigrant New England—the French Canadians, Irish, Italians, Portuguese, Polish, Indigenous people, African-Americans, and other New Englanders whose culinary contributions were erased from this version of New England food. Complete with historic and contemporary recipes, The Truth About Baked Beans delves into the surprising history of this curious cuisine, explaining why and how "New England food" actually came to be.

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