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36525
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A Pound Cake contains a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of flour, and a dozen eggs.
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36526
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Shortages , Substitutes, and Salt: Food during the Civil War in North Carolina
The author talks of the suffering and hardships from the lack of food in North Carolina during the Civil War. He uses Civil War letters to demonstrate the lack of food for the soldiers.
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36527
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The authors talk about the early attempts to make infant feeders and to make infant food.
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36528
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The author talks of learning to read old writing when the writer writes his words as they sound. Reading historical records can be much like breaking a code. An example of entries from a 1795 journal from western North Carolina is given to translate.
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36590
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The author talks about all the old methods of food preservation.
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36591
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The author talks about the many types of apples found in North Carolina and their different uses. Many old time or ‘heirloom’ apples have disappeared; but apple historians are finding examples and bringing them back into production. There is a place that is has an heirloom apple collection open to the public called ‘Horne Creek Living Historical Farm’ located in Pinnacle, NC, north of Winston-Salem.
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36592
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The author talks about the creation of the CMA (Colored Merchants Association) in Winston-Salem, NC, which tried to help the small black independent grocery stores to compete with Chain Stores by using group buying power to match the lower prices the Chain Stores. It worked for a while until the Depression closed many stores.
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36593
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The author talks about her food memories and the difference in preservation that changed the taste of food from her early days.
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36594
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The author talks about the career of Jane S. McKimmon in the creation of 4H clubs to help farm women in modern food preservation and her County Extension work.
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36595
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The author talks about how food has played a role in our religious life.
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36596
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The author talks about the long history of pork barbecue, different sauces in different parts of the State, pig pickins, early barbecue restaurants, and the Lexington Barbecue Festival, which draws one hundred thousand people each October.
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36597
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The author talks about the four black men who performed the sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, which led to six months of lunch counter protests across the South and the end of racial segregation in restaurants.
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36598
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The author talks about so much food we have grown in North Carolina for centuries is from Africa and other places. With new North Carolinians from other countries, new foodways and culinary choices are available.
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36599
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The author talks about change in the North Carolina landscape and environment since the 1600s.
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36600
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The author gives an overview of the division of time in Indian culture in North Carolina as laid out by archeologists, such as emergence, Woodland Period, Mississippi Period and newcomers.
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