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Colonial Foodways
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Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources
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Colonial Foodways
Colonial Williamsburg's foodways staff use eighteenth-century kitchenware, recipes, and ingredients to make the same meals that graced the tables of the wealthy and powerful in Colonial Virginia.
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Primary Source:
The Journal of John Harrower
John Harrower was a Scottish merchant who, after failing to find profitable work in Scotland or England, set out in 1774 for the American colonies as an indentured servant. In his journal he describes the meals he shared with his employer's family and also alludes to some of the political events taking place in the colonies at the time. Learn More
Teaching
Strategy: Food Then and Now
What kinds of foods did people eat in the eighteenth century? Which of those foods do we eat today? What are some 21st-century foods that people in the eighteenth-century would not recognize?
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Colonial
Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your
Classroom
Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about life in early America, including:
—A Day in the Life (Instructional Videos)
—Hands-On History: Lady's Pocket
—Mary Geddy's Day (Book)
—Ann's Story: 1747 (Book)
—A Williamsburg Household (Book)
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Teaching
News
Teaching American History Grants
The Department of Education has announced funding for the 2005 Teaching American History Grants. Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply is May 16, 2005. Application deadline is June 14, 2005.
For more information, visit the Department of Education web site.
Quote
of the Month
"He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends."
--Anthelme Brillat-Savarin,
Physiologie du Gout, 1825 |
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