We learn in school that America was named after Amerigo Vespucci. His claim to the name is not due to great heroism or importance, however. He was simply an explorer of the Americas around the year 1500 and a mapmaker of that time thought, “Why not name this new land after him?” And so it … Read more
Learn to make a 1700’s marmalade recipe in this installment of Colonial Cooking,
The hearth was the heart of a colonial home. It provided people with warmth, light, and most importantly, food. Almost everything a colonial family ate would have been prepared on the hearth. In this mini-series, I am going to show you how I make some of my hearth cooking staples. Please note that not all … Read more
The hearth was the heart of a colonial home. It provided people with warmth, light, and most importantly, food. Almost everything a colonial family ate would have been prepared on the hearth. In this mini-series, I am going to show you how I make some of my hearth cooking staples. Please note that not all … Read more
The hearth was the heart of a colonial home. It provided people with warmth, light, and most importantly, food. Almost everything a colonial family ate would have been prepared on the hearth. In this mini-series, I am going to show you how I make some of my hearth cooking staples. Please note that not all … Read more
Towns and streets follow very similar naming conventions, falling, as they do, into the same twelve categories detailed in my article, “What’s in a Name? — Street Names.” In Connecticut, the vast majority of towns take their names from places in the United Kingdom. Greenwich, Connecticut, is named after Greenwich, England. In this article, we … Read more
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