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Starter: To Eat the South

Starter: To Eat the South

The victual and the political collided in early 1909, when minor shifts in the U.S. popular vote set William Howard Taft on a mission to eat the South into alignment. Since before the Civil War, the Republican and Democratic parties had claimed the “solid North” and the “solid South,” respectively, as their territories. Winning in … Continue reading »

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The Great Possum-Tater Pander of 1909

A saga of culinary minstrelsy, in seven courses.

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