A circa 1930s recipe from the Rhode Island records which we are using today as part of our series on food and the Lenten season.
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A circa 1930s recipe from the Rhode Island records which we are using today as part of our series on food and the Lenten season.
Basing one's diet exclusively on vegetables is a modern concept.
How fish became a principal food eaten during the Lenten season is unclear. The season does coincide with the thawing of waterways and the maturity of a variety of seafood.
In part three of our series on Big Quarterly, a revival/food festival that had been held in the city of Wilmington Delaware, we talk about how the event evolved since the antebellum period. By the time Great Depression (1929-1941) Big Quarterly continued to attract large crowds of churchgoing African-Americans of all denominations which viewed it as ...
Historically, the fourth Sunday of lent have been called a day of mothering in which the custom in United Kingdom have been for adult children to travel home to share time with their mothers as if it were a Mother's Day celebration. Children would bring home with them what people called simnel cake . . .
As part of our series on the culinary traditions of Lent we turn holy week in New Mexico in the 1940s.
