The Founding Foodies: American Meals that Wouldn't Exist Today If Not For Washington, Jefferson, and FranklinEver wonder how certain foods came to be such huge staples of American culinary history? In this fascinating mashup between history book and cook book, one of America's Founding Fathers could be at the source! Food writer Dave DeWitt entertainingly describes how some of America's most famous colonial leaderslike George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklinnot only established America's political destiny, but also revolutionized the very