Introduction
How does learning about American cuisine / cooking styles lend itself to looking at the past?
Task
1. Textbooks are still a way for the past to be presented in a way that excludes as much as includes viewpoints about the past. What is sometimes true about editions and volumes of the same work? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html
2. How have major museums in the US recently addressed Reconstruction? https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/make-good-promises
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3. Look at the "food timeline" at this link and focus on 1860 (plus or minus a few years). What seems to have been ideas that sold then? What about product development(s)? https://www.foodtimeline.org/
4. Does the "food industry" offer us any way to reflect on a public level (apart from school) on a traumatic past? https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/11/532086897/grappling-with-race-class-and-southern-foods-great-debt-of-pleasure