Food and eating in America : a documentary reader

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Content: Intro Title Page Table of Contents Series Editorsâ#x80 #x99 Preface Part I: An Appetizer Part II: Hunting, Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast Chapter 1: Food in the New World Document 1.1: The Cherokee Creation Story, â#x80 #x9C How the World Was Made, Wahnenauhi Versionâ#x80 #x9D Document 1.2: John Smithâ#x80 #x99 s History of the Starving Times at Jamestown Colony (1609) Document 1.3: English Artist John Whiteâ#x80 #x99 s drawings of Native Americans fishing, cooking, and preparing corn (1580s) Document 1.4: Edward Winslow on the â#x80 #x9C Firstâ#x80 #x9D Thanksgiving, 1621 Document 1.5: A Micmac Perspective on Europeansâ#x80 #x99 Way of Life, near Quebec (c. 1677)Document 1.6: John Winthrop, Jr., Report to the Royal Society of London on Indian Corn (1662) Document 1.7: Observations on American Vegetables Versus English Vegetables, from John Josselyn, Newâ#x80 #x90 Englandâ#x80 #x99 s Rarities Discovered (1672), and Francis Higginson, Newâ#x80 #x90 Englandâ#x80 #x99 s Plantation (1630) Document 1.8: A Soldierâ#x80 #x99 s Perspective on the Revolutionary War, Selections from the Memoir of Private Joseph Plumb Martin (1777) Document 1.9: A Generalâ#x80 #x99 s Perspective: A Letter from General Horatio Gates to Major General Caswell (August 3, 1780)Document 1.10: Selections from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) on Communal Eating and Vegetarianism Chapter 2: Food, Foodways, and Conflict in the Early Republic Document 2.1: Amelia Simmons, American Cookery (1796), â#x80 #x9C Preface,â#x80 #x9D and Selected Recipes Document 2.2: The Preface, Introduction, and Assorted Recipes from Mary Randolph, The Virginia Houseâ#x80 #x90 Wife (1824) Document 2.3: Unidentified artist, Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians (Painting, c. 1805) Document 2.4: John Lewis Krimmel, The Quilting Frolic (Painting, 1813)Document 2.5: Excerpt from Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia (1824), Chapter 5, â#x80 #x9C Beasts and Birdsâ#x80 #x9D Document 2.6: Selections from English Phrenologist George Combe, Notes on the United States During a Phrenological Visit in 1838â#x80 #x93 9â#x80 #x93 40, vol. II. (1841) Document 2.7: A Variation of the Lyrics of â#x80 #x9C Home Sweet Home,â#x80 #x9D a Popular Song of the Early Republic (c. 1830) Reference Part III: Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 3: Slavery and Food in the Old SouthDocument 3.1: Selections from Frederick Douglass, Memoirs on Food and Slavery (1845) Document 3.2: Excerpts from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) on Slavesâ#x80 #x99 Weekly Rations, Punishments for Slavesâ#x80 #x99 Stealing Food from Master, and Slave Taste Testers for Master Document 3.3: Images of the Antebellum South Document 3.4: Excerpts from Daniel R. A. C. Hundley, Social Relations in Our Southern States (1860)