Food defined social hierarchy in 1776. Here's what was on the table ^27.7%

NPR - By Ava Berger - 6/28/2026, 9:00 AM

Hasty Generalization 18% - Representativeness Heuristic 11.1% - Availability Heuristic 10.4%

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Arthur Gross has been the chef at Middleton Tavern in Annapolis, Md., for 50 years. That's a long time, even for a tavern that started serving food before the country's inception. Sometimes, in between preparing food in the kitchen, "I wonder to myself what would it have been like?" Miller said of the early days at the... more