© 2008 Program ENERGY Program ENERGY is funded by SEPA grant number 5R25RR020469-05 Food on the...
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© 2008 Program ENERGY Program ENERGY is funded by SEPA grant number 5R25RR020469-05
Food on the Frontier
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Where did pioneers get the foods they ate?There were no grocery stores.
There were no restaurants.
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…caught or hunted,
Everything a person on the frontier ate had to be…
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…grown,
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…gathered,
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…or prepared before it could be eaten.
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There was no electricity on the frontier, so cooking was
done over an open fire……or on a woodstove.
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As more people came to an area, general stores opened.
These stores carried staple items.
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One common staple was cornmeal.
Cornmeal is dried ground corn.
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Program ENERGY
is funded by a
Science Education Partnership Award
from the
National Center for Research Resources/National Institutes of Health
in partnership with the
Food Science and Human Nutrition Department
at
Colorado State University