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Founding Era Diets Reveal Social Hierarchy
NPR explores the diets of early American society, revealing how food defined social status during the founding era. The articles discuss what was on the table for different classes in 1776.
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Around the time the United States was founded, Americans' diets included Parmesan ice cream and terrapin. But what you ate depended on your social status.
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