Lecture about New England Food
Edie Clark, long time writer for Yankee Magazine, gave a wonderful talk about New England foods tonight. The lecture was sponsored by the NH Humanities Council and the meeting in the Congregational Church Hall in Hopkinton, New Hampshire attracted many people. She discussed Fanny Farmer and her famous cooking school in Boston; Julia Child of PBS fame and author of books about French cooking; and Hayden Pearson, an early New Hampshire writer of cookbooks. We thoroughly enjoyed hearing about typical New England dishes, and at least one of them was new to me: the fish, Shad. These series of lectures are free to the public and very worthwhile.
Jim’s baked beans and brown bread, typical New England fare.
On the way home, we saw tiny goslings with their two Canadian Geese parents, finding food on a Hopkinton lawn.
Patricia Cummings
Quilter’s Muse Publications
