Can food help us better understand the people and events of the past? Can we better understand a person like Benjamin Franklin and who he was by the foods he ate?

Rae Katherine Eighmey, an award-winning food historian, author, and cook, joins us to explore the culinary tastes and habits of Benjamin Franklin and colonial British Americans with details from her book Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father’s Culinary Adventures.

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• Episode 019: Kenneth Turino, The Colonial Boston Marketplace
• Episode 022: Vivian Bruce Conger, Deborah Read Franklin & Sally Franklin Bache
• Episode 044: Adam Shprintzen, The Vegetarian Crusade
• Episode 135: Julie Holcomb, Moral Commerce: The Tranatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
• Episode 169: Thomas S. Kidd, The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin
• Episode 207: Nick Bunker, Young Benjamin Franklin

 

 

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