18th and 19th Century Foodways in North America
Interior of the detached kitchen…preserved at Whitney Plantation…St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Credit:Library of Congress control number 2021755922BY B.J. SEDLOCKCharacters in novels set in the 18th and 19th centuries have to eat, so historical novelists may want to do research on foodways of that era. I’ll limit this list to North America, due to a wealth of material, and cover UK and Australia at a later date. (I covered ancient and medieval/Renaissance foodways in previous arti...