Food On The Praire

David Trammel's picture

Here's a discussion on what Life (and food) was like in the old American West.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-they-eat-little-house-on-the-prairie

“[The Little House books] are designed to codify the myth of the self-sufficient pioneers, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and living off the fat of the land,” writes Constance Grady for Vox. But “self-sufficiency” often actually meant periods of hardship and famine, with families struggling to survive long, difficult winters. Yet that doesn’t always come across."