Alice Book Club: The Truth About Baked Beans
Tue, Oct 27
|Alice T Miner Museum
Learn about the history of New England identity as seen through food, and discuss over snacks of our own!
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Alice T Miner Museum, 9618 US-9, Chazy, NY 12921, USA
About the event
This is a very special installment of the Alice book club, because we will be reading a book written by one of our 2026 traveling speakers! Attend Meg Muckenhoupt's talk on Wednesday, Sept. 30th and pick up a copy of The Truth About Baked Beans to read and discuss. As usual, we'll have tea, snacks, and some relevant collections items on display.
About the book: Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Storekeepers in Faneuil Hall and Duck Tour guides may tell you that the Pilgrims learned a recipe for beans with maple syrup and bear fat from Native Americans, but in fact, the recipe for Boston Baked Beans is the result of a conscious effort in the late nineteenth century to create New England foods. New England foods were selected and resourcefully reinvented from fanciful stories about what English colonists cooked…