Summary Of John Wallach's Food And The Founding

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Take a step back from your papers and focus on Wallach 's chapter on "Food and the Founding." Specifically her take on how the colonists used food to define themselves. Take note of how proud they were to be tea drinking British citizens then later coffee swilling Americans. Really cool on the surface right. Now think about how the colonists/Americans made the money to purchase these goods. Yup we are talking about race and slavery, because in this chapter Wallach demonstrates the creation of American racism as we know it today through her examination and comparison of indentured servants and slaves in and around Virginia and the Carolinas. Do you agree with her comparison and the idea that white Americans of all social/cultural status were …show more content…

Hint: Bacon 's Rebellion played a massive role creating modern race.

African influence was central in the creation of food habits that signaled a departure from English customs.

Wallach, Jennifer Jensen; Wallach, Jennifer Jensen (2012-11-21). How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture (American Ways Series) (Kindle Locations 755-756). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Kindle Edition.

With the early settlers food was largely the food that they could cultivate and grow for themselves in this new environment. Due to many of the Pilgrims not being trained in the ways of hunting and fishing, this caused their food supply primarily consisted of vegetables. A funny fact was that the english settlers not only had little knowledge on how to fish but didn 't have the correct sized fish hooks, and with larger hooks the fish could see them and not “fall for the bait”. Due to harsh winters, they needed to stockpile as much as they could, since settlers couldn 't rely on consistent imports from England. Once they began to form actual settlements, the colonist began to adopt English traditions, where they imported many foods, spirits, wine and tea. As the

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