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Accokeek Foundation
Apr 30, 20203 min read
Five 18th Century Recipes You Can Make During Quarantine to Give Yourself a Tiny Bit of Serotonin
For those of you who are able to social distance, it might have been a couple of weeks since you last made a grocery run, and you might...
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Accokeek Foundation
Jul 26, 20194 min read
Switchel: America’s OG sport drink
Before Gatorade, Powerade, and Vitamin Water, Switchel was the drink of choice for rehydration. by Kate McGowan, Museum Interpreter “I...
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Accokeek Foundation
Nov 13, 20132 min read
Food Traditions and the Holidays
photo credit: Hilary Schwab Food. When I begin to think about the holidays, it is impossible to do so without thinking about food and all...
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Accokeek Foundation
May 20, 20132 min read
It’s Amazing What an Eagle Scout Can Do
In January, a young man named Ian (the son of one of our bluebird monitors) contacted us to see if he could do his Eagle Scout Service...
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Accokeek Foundation
Apr 26, 20133 min read
In honor of National Volunteer Week
In the wake of the bombing this month at the Boston Marathon, my facebook newsfeed was inundated with posts and statuses lamenting the...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 13, 20133 min read
AmeriCorps Works. No really, it does!
I am five months and two days (is it really already March?!) into my service year with the Accokeek Foundation, Volunteer Maryland, and...
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Accokeek Foundation
Feb 5, 20131 min read
New Volunteer Position! Colonial Foodways Sous-Chef
This volunteer position is to assist with the interpretation of the National Colonial Farm through the belly (and the kitchen), as we...
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Accokeek Foundation
Aug 31, 20121 min read
Foto Friday: Figgy Pudding (or something like that)
Some Saturdays (the third to be precise), one may enjoy a presentation of the traditional Maryland dishes, or Foodways, dating from the...
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Accokeek Foundation
Nov 22, 20117 min read
Colonial Foodways 2011: Looking Back
by Matt Mattingly During the winter of 2010, the National Colonial Farm began to reexamine what is known in the living history world as...
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Accokeek Foundation
Jun 1, 20112 min read
“Where’s The Beef?” Foodways Found it This Month
It was a fairly warm Saturday on the National Colonial Farm but under the shade of a poplar tree the Accokeek Foundation held its monthly...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 31, 20113 min read
Food for Thought
by Matt Mattingly, Manager of the National Colonial Farm and Historic Interpretation You know what I miss the most about Southern...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 18, 20112 min read
Colonial Cooking Books
The Accokeek Foundation's Foodways program explores the foods that our colonial ancestors ate and the ways in which these foods were...
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Accokeek Foundation
Jan 19, 20111 min read
Discover Maryland Foodways this March
In March of this year the National Colonial Farm will premier its newly developed Foodways program. Over the years this successful...
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