Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg: Slideshow
December 30, 2009
Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg collections, a parade of eighteenth-century goodies. Note the lamb’s head on the end of the spout!
Tag: Virginia
Idylls of Cuisine, #43
December 27, 2009
[A picture, and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
Civil War Christmases
December 10, 2009
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 100 and 50 guns and plenty of ammunition, also about 25,000 bales of cotton. Telegram from William Tecumseh Sherman to Abraham Lincoln, December 22, 1864 Many authors write about the austerity of American Christmas celebrations prior to the Civil War (1861 … More Civil War Christmases
Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg
December 7, 2009
Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we Should feast and sing, and merry be; Keep open house, let fiddlers play, A fig for cold, sing care away; And may they who thereat repine, On brown bread and small beer dine. Virginia Almanack 1766 To paraphrase former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld: There’s the Williamsburg Christmas … More Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg
Baking in Colonial Virginia
March 7, 2009
Lara Templin, an historical interpreter at Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, demonstrates how people baked bread over 400 years ago, in a Cloam oven. Click on the picture to go to the video, shot by Culinary Media Network: