America's Founding Food

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By John Walters on Thursday, November 18, 2004.
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Get ready for Thanksgiving! Kathleen Fitzgerald, the co-author of "America's Founding Food," charts the evolution of American cooking beginning with the English settlers' first encounters with Indian corn to the ways capitalism influenced the American diet.

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