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Food on the Frontier

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Where did pioneers get the foods they ate?There were no grocery stores.

There were no restaurants.

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…caught or hunted,

Everything a person on the frontier ate had to be…

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…grown,

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…gathered,

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…or prepared before it could be eaten.

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There was no electricity on the frontier, so cooking was

done over an open fire……or on a woodstove.

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As more people came to an area, general stores opened.

These stores carried staple items.

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One common staple was cornmeal.

Cornmeal is dried ground corn.

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Program ENERGY

is funded by a

Science Education Partnership Award

from the

National Center for Research Resources/National Institutes of Health

in partnership with the

Food Science and Human Nutrition Department

at

Colorado State University