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Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village Dinner PackageOctober 10-11, 17-18 and 24-25, 2014Join us for a sumptuous candlelit harvest supper. Local Roots Fall Evening DiningNovember 7, 2014Come celebrate with us and be wowed by an elegant wild game dinner. |
Click on an artifact below to see how the foods we ate and the ways we prepared them have changed over the last three centuries.
1860-1890
Can Opener
United States
75.156.20
Gift of Edward Durell
By the 1880s, canned goods could be found in grocery and general stores all over America. Until this time, most people ate what was in season or what foods they could dry, smoke, pickle or “put up” at home in preserving jars and earthenware crocks. These new canned goods offered an affordable and convenient way to enjoy out-of-season fruits and vegetables, or indulge in tasty luxuries like lobster and oysters.
Though commercially-made canned goods did not yet have a dominant place on the shelves of most American pantries during the 1800s, this soon changed. Canned goods were a convenient, affordable fit for the increasingly busy urban lives of most Americans in the 20th century. |
