The '1776 Diet': What Americans really ate during the nation's founding

Many of the American colonists’ eating habits have made a comeback in recent years. They ate minimally processed, locally sourced whole foods and regularly incorporated organ meats into their meals. Livestock and many Old World crops had already been introduced to North America by European explorers and settlers during the centuries before the nation's founding. Early settlers adapted European cooking traditions using ingredients available in North America, the Center for the Study of the Presid