Lewiston Auburn Senior College

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Many of those seemingly innocuous items in your pantry or fridge have been the root cause of most of world history: New England was discovered because Catholics needed more fish for Fridays, the Dutch sold Manhattan to get into the sugar and spice trade, Columbus discovered Central America accidentally while seeking the shortcut to black pepper. So we’ll look at how powerful food really is.

Sandy Garson has been a caterer, cookie biz owner and cooking teacher who studied Food History at Radcliffe and began writing about food for magazines and in two cookbooks using her professional journalism skills. Now she’s sharing all the fascinating food history she’s learned in the last 35 years, bragging about inventions more powerful than the IPhone.