Menu of 1776: turtle soup, meat pies and mac & cheese

New York residents, what was on the American menu in 1776?

You don’t kill Hessians, draft a declaration and capture Yorktown on an empty stomach. Just what did the founders eat?

“I think it would strike us as bland,” said Charles Ludington, a former associate professor of food studies at New York University and the author of several books on the history of food…

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