Keywords: food processing plants
Item 1046
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1878 Location: Wilton Media: Stereograph
Item 75464
Puss N Boots cat food plant, Lubec, 1975
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Kodachrome slide
Exhibit
Maine Eats: the food revolution starts here
From Maine's iconic lobsters, blueberries, potatoes, apples, and maple syrup, to local favorites like poutine, baked beans, red hot dogs, Italian sandwiches, and Whoopie Pies, Maine's identity and economy are inextricably linked to food. Sourcing food, preparing food, and eating food are all part of the heartbeat of Maine's culture and economy. Now, a food revolution is taking us back to our roots in Maine: to the traditional sources, preparation, and pleasures of eating food that have sustained Mainers for millennia.
Exhibit
Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"Some of the steps in the process of canning are shown. The effort to form a cartel to control what its organizers thought what might be controlled is…"
Site Page
"… years, through the prosperous era of herring processing, and into the present with efforts to forge economic recovery through aquaculture and…"
Story
Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila
Animal agriculture's ties to climate change
Story
Finding and cooking fiddleheads with my parents
by Brian J. Theriault
My father has been picking and eating fiddleheads almost all his life, Mom prepares and stores them
