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Benjamin Franklin gives up eating meat for a time

Cause of “milk sickness” that killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother

Eleanor Roosevelt does TV commercial for margarine

First African-American to dine at White House

George Washington’s mess kit from Revolutionary War

Hard apple cider a symbol in 1840s of simpler frontier life

John Glenn’s first space meals crumbled and floated around

Johnny Appleseed’s obituary in 1845

Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal 5,300 years ago

The passage in “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair that sickened America in 1906

When U.S. Presidents began to be seen eating

Books of Interest

Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance

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Dining with Proust: A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque

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Dining with the Washingtons: Historic Recipes, Entertaining, and Hospitality from Mount Vernon

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Dinner with Dickens: Recipes Inspired by the Life and Work of Charles Dickens

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Founding Foodies

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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation

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Hamilton Cookbook: Cooking, Eating, and Entertaining in Hamilton’s World

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Rich Spot of Earth: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello

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Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

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