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    Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners
    Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners
    Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners
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    Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners

    By Lucille Recht Penner

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    Penner's Pilgrims are heroes, and deservedly so. She takes the story of their crossing on the Mayflower and establishment of Plymouth Colony, and fleshes it out with all the distasteful, even disgusting, details of their struggle for survival. Everything that made life difficult in the 1600s is mentioned--the acceptance of insect infestation in one's hair, clothing, bed, and food; the lack of efficient implements for home construction; the danger of crossing the Atlantic on an open vessel; and the deadly aftermath of disease. The author makes it clear that without the Indians' help, these settlers would not have made it through their first year, dependent as they were on European agricultural methods not suited to the New World.

    While Penner gives a complete picture of the Pilgrims' daily life, her prime focus is on food--what the people ate; how they raised, prepared, served, and preserved it. Her writing style has a light touch that makes this interesting reading, often with a wry slant. The book concludes with a ``Pilgrim Menu'' for readers to prepare with adult supervision. The illustrations include pen-and-ink drawings and lithographs that show period artifacts and various food items.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateSep 9, 2008
    ISBN9781439136997
    Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners
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    Lucille Recht Penner

    Lucille Recht Penner was born in New York City and is an alumna of Barnard College. She has written 35 books for children on subjects ranging from dinosaurs to Native American food.

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    • 4/5
      With clear, simple prose, Penner brings the reader into the world of the Pilgrims. She starts with their history, explaining why they left England, their time in Holland, their hard trip across the Atlantic, and the hardships they faced in the New World. She centers on their diet, manner, and methods of cooking. Penner adds details that kids will enjoy - bugs in the food, sleeping on the dining room table, dirty napkins, and gross recipes! This is an excellent addition to any child's library!
    • 1/5
      Lacks depth and doesn't seem to include primary sources. Letters, journal entries, or pictures from that time would provide a richer source of information and increase the overall believability of the content. The pictures aren't referenced. There is a glossary and recipes at the end of the book, which is neat. But overall, this is not a useful book to show kids or to be used as a reference of any sort. I would not use this book in any lesson.

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    Eating the Plates - Lucille Recht Penner

    EATING THE PLATES

    BY THE SAME AUTHOR

    The Colonial Cookbook

    The Honey Book

    The Thanksgiving Book

    A child posing with her cat.

    If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as unsold and destroyed to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this stripped book.

    First Aladdin Paperbacks edition September 1997

    Text Copyright © 1991 by Lucille Recht Penner

    Aladdin Paperbacks

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster

    Children’s Publishing Division

    1230 Avenue of the Americas

    New York, NY 10020

    www.SimonandSchuster.com

    All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

    Printed and bound in the United States of America

    10 9

    The text of this book is set in 13½ point Galliard.

    The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

    Penner, Lucille Recht.

    Eating the plates : a pilgrim book of food and manners / by Lucille Recht Penner—1st ed.

    p.   cm.

    Includes bibliographical references.

    Summary: Discusses the eating habits, customs, and manners of the Pilgrims in the colony of New Plymouth.

    ISBN 0-02-770901-9

    ISBN-13: 978-0-689-81541-6

    eISBN-13: 978-1-439-13699-7

    1. Food habits—United States—Juvenile literature. 2. Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)—Social life and customs—Juvenile literature. 3. Cookery, American—Juvenile literature. [1. Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)—Social life and customs. 2. Cookery, American. 3. Food habits—United States.] I. Title.

    GT2853.U5P46   1991

    394.1′09744—dc20   90-5918

    ISBN 0-689-81541-7 (Aladdin pbk.)

    Recipe for swizzle, p. 104, by permission of the Plymouth Antiquarian Society.

    To my father-in-law

    Contents

    Introduction : Good-bye Forever

    1 Bugs for Dinner

    2 A Land of Plenty?

    3 Eating on the Run

    4 Welcome!

    5 The Heart of the House

    6 We All Scream for Pudding

    7 What’s Cooking?

    8 Don’t Throw Your Bones on the Floor

    9 Eating the Plates

    10 Help Yourself : A Pilgrim Menu from Soup to Nuts

    Fresh Corn Soup

    Red Pickled Eggs

    Hot Indian Pudding

    Succotash Stew

    Spicy Cucumber Catsup

    Bannock Cakes

    Whole Baked Pumpkin Stuffed with Apples

    Bearberry Jelly

    Swizzle

    Hot Nuts

    Glossary

    Selected Bibliography

    Index

    Introduction: Good-bye Forever

    My country, ’tis of thee

    Sweet land of liberty,

    Of thee I sing:

    Land where my fathers died,

    Land of the pilgrim’s pride,

    From every mountain side

    Let freedom ring.

    —Samuel Francis Smith, America

    This book is about the eating habits, customs, and manners of real people who lived a long time ago.

    We call them the Pilgrims. Pilgrims are people who travel to a faraway place in order to pray there.

    The Pilgrims were born in England close to four hundred years ago. Back then, English people had to pray the way the king said they should. If they didn’t, they could be put in prison or even killed.

    The Pilgrims wanted to pray in their own way. So they decided to leave England and find a new home.

    First they went to Holland. The people of Holland, called the Dutch, were nice to the Pilgrims. They gave them homes and jobs. Some Pilgrims became weavers, tailors, and button makers. Others became masons and bricklayers.

    The King of England was angry at the Pilgrims. He wanted to put them in jail.

    The Pilgrims were safe in Holland. But they were not happy living among the Dutch. They thought the Dutch were more interested in money and fun than they were in religion. And the Pilgrims were afraid that their children would grow up to be just like the Dutch.

    So they decided to take a big chance—to sail across the ocean to America.

    It was a very dangerous and very scary thing to do.

    Only a few English people had been to America. Many still believed that the earth was flat. They thought that if you sailed too far you would fall off the edge.

    Even people who knew that the earth was round were worried. What was America like? Was it safe there? The Pilgrims were afraid. But they made up their minds to go.

    First they needed supplies—a lot of supplies. There wouldn’t be any stores in America! They had to bring with them everything they would need when they got there: clothes and shoes and dishes and furniture, food and drink and weapons and tools, farming equipment, cloth, and beads to trade to the Indians.

    To buy all of these supplies, and to hire a ship for the long voyage, would cost a tremendous amount of money. In fact, the

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