[Ads-l] Brunswick stew 1846

[Stephen Goranson]

Barbecue....The meats were excellent and cooked in the most approved Virginia style; but a capital squirrel stew--

called by some a Brunswick stew--was the favorite of the table.


Richmond Times and Compiler [Am. Hist. Newsp.] June 4, 1846 p. 2 col. c.



[1849 at Lib. Congress Newspapers:

...the pride and boast of the feast was a huge and ponderous iron pot in which steamed with delightful fragrance

a "Brunswick stew"--a genuine south-side [Virginia] dish, composed of squirrels, chickens, a little bacon,

and corn and tomatoes, ad libitum....under the direction of "uncle Ben Moody"....]


OED (word of the day; entry rev. Dec. 2016) has 1855.


Stephen Goranson

"'On the fritz' at sing Sing"

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