This Week on Dispatches: John L. Smith, Jr. on Thomas Jefferson and French Fries
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews educator, US Army and US Air Force veteran, and JAR contributor, John L. Smith, Jr., about the…
On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews educator, US Army and US Air Force veteran, and JAR contributor, John L. Smith, Jr., about the…
Martha Bradley lived in an age when a prosperous household often brewed its own beer, culturing and storing it in large wooden vessels in…
To accompany our roast, Martha Bradley in her 1756 work The British Housewife: or, the Cook, Housekeeper’s, and Gardiner’s Companion included recipes for stews, savory…
Yesterday, Martha Bradley, in her 1756 publication The British Housewife: or, the Cook, Housekeeper’s, and Gardiner’s Companion, explained to us the various poultry available in…
He may have beaten the British, but by the time George Washington became president, his sweet tooth (singular tooth)[i] for tasty desserts had not…
All of that great eating on Thanksgiving Day sometimes has natural consequences that lead us to seek entirely different recipes for Friday. If we’ve…
What to serve for desert after a Thanksgiving meal? Pumpkin pie, obviously. Unfortunately for the revolutionary-era aspiring chef in America, pumpkins are plentiful but…
Yesterday we saw how to roast a turkey according to a popular 18th century cookbook. It wouldn’t be a Thanksgiving dinner without turkey, but…
Although many immigrants to the American colonies enjoyed a richer and more varied diet than they had in their home countries, as evidenced by…
We’ve all had to “eat humble pie” at one time or another, a saying that hearkens back to the medieval period, when the term…
While it is a shameful chapter in our national past, the fact of slavery during the Revolutionary Era is inescapable, and part of understanding…
One of the best ways to get a visceral sense of what life in the Revolutionary Era was like is to eat the foods…