Pottery was made in the United States by the middle of the seventeenth century, but the first recorded attempt to make porcelain was by Andrew Duche in Georgia about 1738. Other potters tried with little success until the late 1760s.…
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States had thriving ceramic industries in New Jersey and the Ohio-West Virginia area, but economic conditions following World War I brought changes. Less-expensive dishes were being made in Europe and Asia,…
The twentieth century saw astounding changes in the American home and American food. The nineteenth-century housewife killed the chicken, plucked its feathers, and cleaned, cut, seasoned, and cooked the chicken on an open flame. By 1990 she went to a…