Eating Corn and Tomatoes This Fall From Your Garden

Fresh corn salad with spicy shrimp and tomatoes, recipe below (photo courtesy of http://www.honeysage.com/)

In the Chesapeake Bay region, tobacco became the most important cash crop in British colonial Virginia. Plantation owners first employed Native Americans, poor Europeans, and African indentured servants or engages who developed a shared agrarian working class culture as indentured servants working, living, and eating in a highly stratified British colonial world. Native Americans shared their foraging, gardening, and cookery include the multiple ways they ate corn. using corn's versatility even in the most humble of kitchens.The transition to slavery in the Americas occurred slowly over many years and that process began in Virginia with Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 named after it's leader yeoman farmer Daniel Bacon. The rebellion consisted of a massive group indentured servants and poor disgruntled farmers like Bacon who decided to organize an armed movement against the small group of landed elites who monopolized colonial institutions including the courts as well as land and food. Below is a great recipe that incorporates the fall tomato and corn harvest with shrimp.

Eating From Your Garden Series with Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=Eating+From+Your+Garden+This+Fall

Harvesting and Cooking From Your Garden: [Listen Now 53 min 58 sec]  http://beta.wosu.org/allsides/harvesting-the-summer-garden-and-other-tips-for-gardening/

Corn Series with Related Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=corn+series

Tomato Series with Recipes: http://www.foodasalens.com/search?q=tomato+series