I’m a homeschooling teenager in Boston. I’ve been using the freedom of homeschooling to explore a special social studies topic this year – the history of food. I’m reading a lot of books and articles and recently visited the Radcliffe Library, to see their cookbook collection. I’ve also been doing a lot of cooking and eating.
One of my current projects is studying the history of the tuna melt. I got the idea after reading an article in the newspaper where the journalist traced the history of tiramisu, which in the 1700s was called tipsy cake, and before that, rum bread. This article was trying to prove the point that not all “modern” foods, such as tiramisu, are so modern. I’m trying to do the something similar with the tuna melt.
I would like my posts on the Jew and the Carrot to chronicle my tuna melt project and my other food-related projects. I plan to post interesting facts and stories that I find while researching, and also sometimes post about my own experience researching this topic as a teenager. I’d love to hear your comments and suggestions as I go along.