BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2006

Subscribe Now! SPRING 2006 VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 2 IN THIS ISSUE: THE WAY WE ATE   Our Favorite Diners  Historic Kitchens to View  Jewish Farmers Invent Agricultural Tourism  Hot Dogs & Fried Clams: What You Loved to Eat On the cover: Zip’s Diner in Dayville. Photo: Nancy O. Albert Contents pg 9 From the Publisher: pg 10 Letters, etc. pg 14 Suffield: A Town of Farms. By Laura Dillman pg 20 Can We See the Kitchen? By Melanie Anderson Bourbeau pg 26 Hebrew Tillers of the Soil. By Mary M. Donohue and Dr. Kenneth Libo pg 32 Native American Cuisine Saves the Colonists. By Dale Carson pg 36 Lunch Wagon to Space-Age Diner: Connecticut’s First Fast Food Emporiums. By Chris Dobbs with Nancy O. Albert pg 42 re: Collections The first American cookbook. By Jennifer Huget pg 44 Destination The Connecticut River Museum celebrates the State fish. By Brenda Milkofsky pg 46 What We Loved to Eat. Our readers remember Connecticut delicacies and eateries they loved. pg 49 Afterword Special exhibitions and events not to be missed this spring. pg 52 Soapbox The Slow Food Movement calls for a return to heirloom varieties. By Susan R. Chandler

FALL 2006

• The Great San Francisco Earthquake

• Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London

• The Kent Iron Furnace

SUMMER 2006

• Escape from New-Gate Prison

• Written in Stone

• Hammonasset Beach State Park Summers

SPRING 2006

• Hebrew Tillers of the Soil

• The First American Cookbook

• What We Loved to Eat

WINTER 2005/2006

• A Valley Flooded

• Making a Success of Coltsville

• In a Neighborhood, A Boy’s World

FALL 2005

• The “Conference” State

• Glimpses of Lincoln’s Brilliance

• Stamping Out the Reds

SUMMER 2005

• Making Their Presence Known

• What’s a Puritan?

• Enfield’s Shaker Legacy

• Faith Congregational Church

SPRING 2005

• The Horseless Era Arrives

• Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?

• The Sky’s the Limit

• A Century of Connecticut Inventions

 

2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005

• Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School

• The Enigma of Wallace Stevens

• Lunch with Monet

AUG/SEP/OCT 2004

• The Education of Ella Grasso

• Ancient Burying Ground

• Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager

MAY/JUN/JUL 2004

• Miracle on Capital Avenue

• Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War

• A Piece of Silk Tells of the Richly Textured Fabric of Mill Town Life

FEB/MAR/APR 2004

• Hospital Rock

• A Well-stocked Saddlebag for the Doctor on Horseback

2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004

• A War Contested

• “If You Don’t Need It, DON’T BUY IT”

• Manufacturing for the War Effort

• Fighting for Freedom

SUMMER 2003

• An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age

• Audacious Alliances

• Sophia Woodhouse’s Grass Bonnets

SPRING 2003

• Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces

• A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy

• The Hartford Dark Blues

 

WINTER 2003

• A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing

• The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street

• Francis Goodwin II’s reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge

FALL 2002

• A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History

• Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut

• A “Tomitude”