#  MHS: Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic 

 



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 **October 25, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 **1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA**  



 

 



 

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 **Nancy Siegel**, Towson University

 Culinary activists furthered republican values in the revolutionary era as part of a political and cultural ideology. They developed a culinary vocabulary expressed in words and actions such as the refusal to consume politically charged comestibles, like imported tea, and the celebration of a national horticulture. Through these choices, they established a culinary discourse involving food, political culture, and national identity from the Stamp Act to the early republic.



 

 



 

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