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Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village Dinner Package at Eagle Tavern

December 5-7, 12-14, 18-23 and 26-27, 2014
Treat your family to a delectable holiday feast.

Holiday Nights Supper with Santa Package

December 5-7, 12-14 and 18-23, 2014
Enjoy a casual buffet-style holiday turkey dinner perfect for kids!
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The Henry Ford has a "tasty" collection of food-related artifacts that let us peer into kitchens from America's past. It is one of the best collections of its kind in the country.

1970-1979
Yogurt Maker
Comtempra Industriies, Inc., New Shrewsbury, New Jersey
2003.97.5
Gift of Robert and Rosemary Brasie
A legacy of the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s was an increased emphasis on healthy eating. Mainstream meals with traditional ingredients moved aside as Americans explored new kinds of foods not formerly a regular part of American diets. One of these foods was yogurt, embraced for both its great new taste and its health benefits.

This yogurt maker, marketed to the middle class, shows how quickly foods from the alternative lifestyle of hippie culture went mainstream in the 1970s.