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Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie

Nov 7
Nov 7 The Origins of Plantains

Food Prof Fred Opie

Nov 6
Nov 6 Indigenous Foodways

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WPA Virginia Apple Butter Boiling Part 3
Nov 5

Nov 5 WPA Virginia Apple Butter Boiling Part 3

Food Prof Fred Opie

Nov 4
Nov 4 WPA Virginia Apple Butter Boiling Part 2

Food Prof Fred Opie

The tradition called for farm families to come together and make all kinds of delicious baked goods cider from the fall harvest of apples. The host of these events served . . . 

WPA Virginia Apple Butter Boiling Part 1
Nov 3

Nov 3 WPA Virginia Apple Butter Boiling Part 1

Food Prof Fred Opie
Virginia History, Culinary Entrepreneurship

As part of our ongoing series on culinary traditions we turn today to WPA Sources on Virginia. This fall farming community food processing tradition is a story archived in the Library of Congress as part of its America Eats collection in a Virginia folder marked "Notes, Reports, and Essays."

Poor But Not Hungry
Oct 31

Oct 31 Poor But Not Hungry

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Stumping and Eating in Wisconsin
Oct 30

Oct 30 Stumping and Eating in Wisconsin

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America Eats Project, Wisconsin History
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