A year after Leverett was incorporated the Selectmen ordered a celebratory meal of beans and meat with cake. Those foods are still with us, but other earlier foods are no longer popular, and today we buy groceries from around the world. How did these changes happen?
With chapters on the culinary history of the town since colonial times followed by chapters focusing on favorite foods, Eating in Leverett 1774-2024 explores the lives of earlier residents, and the history of what we grow, buy, cook, and eat today. Recipes are included.
Claire Hopley’s five previous books on food include two on the vegetables of the Pioneer Valley Valley Vegetables and Extra! Extra! She also writes for local newspapers and lectures on culinary history at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield.
