Sample articles from past issues: WINTER 2005/2006 • A Valley Flooded • Making a Success of Coltsville • In a Neighborhood, A Boy's World FALL 2005 • The "Conference" State • Glimpses of Lincoln's Brilliance • Stamping Out the Reds SUMMER 2005 • Making Their Presence Known • What's a Puritan? • Enfield's Shaker Legacy • Faith Congregational Church SPRING 2005 • The Horseless Era Arrives • Creative License, or Fundamental Fact? • The Sky's the Limit • A Century of Connecticut Inventions 2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005 • Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School • The Enigma of Wallace Stevens • Lunch with Monet AUG/SEP/OCT 2004 • The Education of Ella Grasso • Ancient Burying Ground • Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager MAY/JUN/JUL 2004 • Miracle on Capital Avenue • Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War • A piece of silk tells of the richly textured fabric of mill town life. FEB/MAR/APR 2004 • Hospital Rock • A well-stocked saddlebag for the doctor on horseback. 2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004 • A War Contested • "If You Don't Need It, DON'T BUY IT." • Manufacturing for the War Effort • Fighting for Freedom Summer 2003 • An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age • Audacious Alliances • Sophia Woodhouse's Grass Bonnets SPRING 2003 • Hartford's Motion Picture Palaces • A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy • The Hartford Dark Blues WINTER 2003 • A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing • The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street • Francis Goodwin II's reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge. FALL 2002 • A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History • Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut • A "Tomitude"

SPRING 2006
VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 2
IN THIS ISSUE:
     THE WAY WE ATE

  Our Favorite Diners
 Historic Kitchens to View
 Jewish Farmers Invent Agricultural Tourism
 Hot Dogs & Fried Clams:
             What You Loved to Eat

On the cover:
Zip's Diner in Dayville.
Photo: Nancy O. Albert

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher:
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 14	Suffield: A Town of Farms. By Laura Dillman
pg 20	Can We See the Kitchen? By Melanie Anderson Bourbeau
pg 26	Hebrew Tillers of the Soil. By Mary M. Donohue and Dr. Kenneth Libo
pg 32	Native American Cuisine Saves the Colonists. By Dale Carson
pg 36	Lunch Wagon to Space-Age Diner: Connecticut's First Fast Food Emporiums. By Chris Dobbs with Nancy O. Albert
pg 42	re: Collections The first American cookbook. By Jennifer Huget
pg 44	Destination The Connecticut River Museum celebrates the State fish. By Brenda Milkofsky
pg 46	What We Loved to Eat. Our readers remember Connecticut delicacies and eateries they loved.
pg 49	Afterword Special exhibitions and events not to be missed this spring.
pg 52	Soapbox The Slow Food Movement calls for a return to heirloom varieties. By Susan R. Chandler

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