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Lecture: Coffee, Chocolate, Tea, Spices, and Many Other Items too Tedious to Mention: 18th Century Imports

Tuesday, December 13

12:00-1:00pm

Free, Drop-In

 

This show-n-tell program covers coffee, chocolate, imported and patriotic teas, spices, sugar, salts, peppers, food colorants, isinglass, hartshorn, gum dragon and gum Arabic, leavenings, oils, pickles, sweetmeats, syrups, jellies, rose and orange-flower waters and many, many other items that were part of our nation’s imported foods. A hand-out is supplied.

(Photo credit: Ruth Konrad)

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