Colonial Culinary: Colonial Vegetable Pottage

Calling all history buffs and food explorers!

Join our 2026 Colonial Cooking series to meet the ingredients, recipes, and techniques that built early America. We’ll chop, mix, and bake our way through history, learning the stories behind the staples and demystifying the daily life of the past. Get ready for a hands-on taste of history that will change how you see food!

We’ve all had hearty vegetable soup, but how did colonists turn simple garden harvests into a sustaining staple? Their one-pot methods and seasonal ingredients created a humble dish with a richer history than you might expect!