Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father's Culinary Adventures Eighmey Rae Katherine
Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father's Culinary Adventures Eighmey Rae Katherine In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation…
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Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father's Culinary Adventures Eighmey Rae Katherine
In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues to abandon their traditional breakfast of beer and bread for "water gruel," a kind of tasty porridge he enjoyed. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism.
He even conducted an electrical experiment to try to cook a turkey and installed a state-of-the-art oven for his beloved wife Deborah. Franklin is known for his scientific discoveries, including electricity and the lightning rod, and his curiosity and logical mind extended to the kitchen. Later in life, on his diplomatic missions--he lived fifteen years in England and nine in France--Franklin ate like a local.
Eighmey discovers the meals served at his London home-away-from-home and