Food That Held Up A Nation

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Looks at how grain, bread and staple foods kept ordinary people fed in early America, in a 27-minute documentary-style episode; Townsends grounds its food history in period sources.

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How grain, bread and staple foods sustained ordinary people in early America.

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Part of Hunting for the True Experience, The American Frontier

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