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…
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Thanksgiving: A Week with Martha Bradley, The British Housewife, Day 5
byMartha Bradley lived in an age when a prosperous household often brewed its own beer, culturing and storing it in large wooden vessels in…
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Thanksgiving: A Week with Martha Bradley, The British Housewife, Day 3
byTo 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…
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Thanksgiving: A Week with Martha Bradley, The British Housewife, Day 2
byYesterday, 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…
Washington: Father of Two Scoops
byHe may have beaten the British, but by the time George Washington became president, his sweet tooth (singular tooth)[i] for tasty desserts had not…
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The Spirit of the Coffee
byAll of that great eating on Thanksgiving Day sometimes has natural consequences that lead us to seek entirely different recipes for Friday. If we’ve…
Dessert: Send it to Table
byWhat to serve for desert after a Thanksgiving meal? Pumpkin pie, obviously. Unfortunately for the revolutionary-era aspiring chef in America, pumpkins are plentiful but…
Side Dishes: Serve it Up
byYesterday we saw how to roast a turkey according to a popular 18th century cookbook. It wouldn’t be a Thanksgiving dinner without turkey, but…
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Baked Beans and Johnnycake
byAlthough many immigrants to the American colonies enjoyed a richer and more varied diet than they had in their home countries, as evidenced by…
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Anything But Humble: Pie for Dinner
byWe’ve all had to “eat humble pie” at one time or another, a saying that hearkens back to the medieval period, when the term…
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Feeding the Slaves
byWhile it is a shameful chapter in our national past, the fact of slavery during the Revolutionary Era is inescapable, and part of understanding…
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Family Dinner: Soup, Molasses Bread & Jefferson’s Meringues
byOne of the best ways to get a visceral sense of what life in the Revolutionary Era was like is to eat the foods…