Ocean State Sampler: Foodways & Cultural Heritage
Food plays a central role in creating cultural identity. Learn about the many different groups who have shaped Rhode Island’s identity through their culinary p…
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Chan’s Fine Oriental Dining, Jazz & Blueslocation_fill“Chow mein” and “chop suey"—both American appropriations of Cantonese words—have been part of the American Eng…
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Autocratlocation_fillIn the 1920s, when southern Italian immigrants brought their tradition of heavily sweetened coffee to Rhode Is… -
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DePasquale Squarelocation_fillEntering Narragansett Bay in 1524, the explorer Giovanni de Verrazano was probably the first Italian visitor t… -
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Ponto Um Marketlocation_fillWalking into Ponto Um, an unassuming shop on Warren Avenue in East Providence, you may be greeted with a cheer… -
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Culinary Arts Museumlocation_fillBAM! While Chef Emeril Lagasse’s catchphrase may not have started at Johnson & Wales University’s College of C… -
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Del'slocation_fill“Stop at the sign of the lemon!” declares the Del’s soft frozen lemonade slogan. The Del’s symbol, a frost-cov… -
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Tomaquag Museumlocation_fillEleanor Dove’s recipe for Raccoon Pot Pie was so beloved, so well-known, that it is now preserved in the Congr… -
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Kenyon’s Grist Milllocation_fillIn the village of Usquepaugh, on the banks of the Queen’s River, Kenyon’s Grist Mill has ground whole berries … -
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The World was his Oysterlocation_fill“I would have been a millionaire today if I had bent to prejudice.” So said George Thomas Downing, prominent A… -
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Newport Distilling Companylocation_fillThomas Tew gained such renown for his exploits from 1692 until 1695 that he was nicknamed the Rhode Island Pir… -
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Flo's Drive-Inlocation_fillIn Rhode Island, you are never far from the ocean. Many of the state’s most beloved foods come from the sea an…
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