EPISODE · Jul 20, 2022 · 27 MIN
053 18th Century Gardens - For Use or Delight
from The History of American Food · host Margaret Hardin
Mary Mary, Quite Contrary , How does your Garden Grow?Or more importantly what grows in it, is it geometric or naturalistic, and who's doing the spade work?Gardens in 18th century America run the gamut from pure survival to combining pleasure and purpose, to being show pieces entirely - Just like the Dowager Lady Grantham'sMost Important (and very readable) Book for this Episode: Leighton, Anne. _American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: For Use or Delight_Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976 Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: [email protected] Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFoodMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot comThreads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood
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Mary Mary, Quite Contrary , How does your Garden Grow?Or more importantly what grows in it, is it geometric or naturalistic, and who's doing the spade work?Gardens in 18th century America run the gamut from pure survival to combining pleasure and purpose, to being show pieces entirely - Just like the Dowager Lady Grantham'sMost Important (and very readable) Book for this Episode: Leighton, Anne. _American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: For Use or Delight_Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976 Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: [email protected] Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFoodMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot comThreads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood
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