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digest-41736	Baruh, Ruzhica Samokovlija	Review of: The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England (Muckenhoupt)	2025	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1526	49	43	In chapter three, Muckenhoupt directs us from misconceptions to limitations, shedding light on the five constraints that hindered the development of New England cuisine in the late 18th century: Urbanization and industrialization, the influence of the “New England Kitchen” exhibits, social reformers focused on providing cheap food for the poor, the Colonial Revival, and the relationship between New England elites and their cooks [64]. As Muckenhoupt points out, this movement, while idealizing a nostalgic vision of early New England cuisine, obscured its most destructive facet through a deliberate exclusion of non-white ethnic foods from its narrative “A small subset of New Baruh, Review of Muckenhoupt Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture 11 (2025): 67-69 68 England foods – baked beans, pies, brown bread, boiled dinner – were charged with Yankee virtue.”	cache/digest-41736.pdf	txt/digest-41736.txt