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Colonial cooking and foodways: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.15; A reenactor demonstrates cooking over an open fire.; Format: video

Domestic work in the nineteenth century: In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.11; Videos of junior reenactors at Duke Homestead State Historic Site in Durham, North Carolina, show cooking indoors and outdoors and the work involved in doing laundry by hand.; Format: video

Cooking on a cast iron stove: Demonstration of cooking on a nineteenth-century cast-iron cookstove.; Format: video/video

Colonial cooking: This photograph shows how a typical cooking fire might have looked in the colonial era. A kettle hangs over the fire, and a chicken hangs nearby from a string, cooking slowly. The string allowed the chicken to spin, causing it to cook evenly without having...; Format: image/photograph

Colonial cooking fire: Close-up: Photograph of a re-creation of a colonial-era cooking fire. A kettle hangs over the fire, a few pieces of fish are tied to a board facing the flames, and a chicken hangs nearby from a string, cooking slowly. The string allowed the chicken to spin, causing...; Format: image/photograph

Cooking on an open fire: A reenactor demonstrates eighteenth-century methods of cooking and talks about colonial foods and foodways.; Format: video/video

Cooking hoe cakes on an open fire: Demonstration of cooking hoe cakes outdoors on an open fire. "Hoe cakes" are cakes or breads made of cornmeal, small enough to be cooked on the back of a farmer's hoe.; Format: video/video

World War II on the home front: Rationing: During World War II, the United States asked citizens at home to cut back on food, fuel, shoes, and consumer goods and to turn in scrap metal, rubber, paper, and even used cooking grease for recycling. Photographs, posters, and artifacts tell the story.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Cooking in a Civil War camp: Civil War soldiers cook food at an encampment.; Format: image/photograph

Pot hooks: Pot hooks were used in early cooking to hang a pot over a fire. The pot hooks in this photo were found in an excavation at the site of colonial Jamestown in Virginia.; Format: image/photograph

18th-century cooking fire: At a demonstration of eighteenth-century life on the North Carolina frontier, a woman tends to the food at a cooking fire. Two iron pots of food and two pieces of meat hang from a log over the fire.; Format: image/photograph

Women cooking in a mountain house in western Nepal: In Nayathanti, Nepal, an elderly woman sorts through a bunch of broad-leafed mustard greens while a young woman works over the hearth. They are probably cooking food for the trekking tourists and their porters. The smoke from cooking and heating the home is...; Format: image/photograph

Solar cooking: In this lesson, students will build a minimal solar oven that works using two cardboard boxes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies); By Libby Morrison.

Confederate soldier cooking: Soldiers both North and South had to cook their own food depending on what was available in the area or through foraging details. Here, a Confederate soldier peels potatoes to prepare a stew for his fellow soldiers. Photographed at the living history program...; Format: image/photograph

A woman making brunch near Jodhpur, India: A woman makes brunch near Jodhpur, India. She squats on the tan floor of a house as she prepares the food. She is surrounded by shallow tin plates already filled with food, as well as a cooking fire, a container of flour, a basket, and other containers. The...; Format: image/photograph

A pilgrim woman cooking: At Titre village, Nepal, a woman stokes a fire over which she is cooking her meal. The woman is probably a pilgrim on her way to the Muktinaath, a village and sacred site for both Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims. Muktinaath is in the Mustang district of central...; Format: image/photograph

A food stand vendor fans cooking fire as young man watches: A food stand vendor fans his smokey cooking fire as a young man in a white T-shirt watches from his side. The vendor is cooking satay, chunks of grilled meat on skewer sticks, which is a favored dish throughout Indonesia and the Malay world. The meat is generally...; Format: image/photograph

Study your rocks and eat them too!: The instructor will use a liquid batter to cook pancakes to model the formation of igneous rocks.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science); By George Scherger.

Fireplace and cooking tools at Allen House: Fireplace and cooking tools hanging in the fireplace of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., where John and Rachel Allen lived with their family in the late 1700s. The tools hanging from a wooden beam on the stone wall of the fireplace include a trivet...; Format: image/photograph

Water for drinking: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 16; This well, rimmed with a cement wall, is a community water source at Mai Chau. A red plastic pail suspended from a pole and washing basin are visible on the right. In the background, laundry is drying. Traditionally, Southeast Asian highlanders drew water...; By Lorraine Aragon.

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