Food defined social hierarchy in 1776. Here’s what was on the table

A table setting of a meal typical for working-class people in 18th and 19th-century Annapolis is displayed at Hogshead Trades Museum.

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.

(Image credit: Anna Rose Layden for NPR)

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