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>> On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:21:40 -0800, "Julie Bove"
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>>>"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/di...anted=all&_r=0
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>>>> So, what did people do before fridges?
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>>>Well, I wasn't alive in those days but from what I have read, they had
>>>little shops nearby and they bought things as needed. They also wouldn't
>>>have baked a casserole the night before.
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>> Bull shit!
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> That sums it up perfectly.

Well, no. I have read quite a few books on food history in this country and
others and that is exactly what they did.