Holidays are rooted in cooking and family recipes. When we remember Christmas or Thanksgiving, we remember the smells and the old cookie recipes written on index cards. Along with the holidays comes themed cooking. For Easter we color eggs, for Thanksgiving we cook turkey, for Christmas we make tons and tons of baked goods from our favorite Betty Crocker cookbook. But how often do we think about the history of what we are cooking? Recently, Maria Godoy from NPR wrote an article on the dark history of green food coloring for St. Patrick’s Day. Apparently the green color comes from the story that so many people were starving and eating grass during the potato famine, they were found dead with their mouths colored green. Think about that next time you bite into that delicious green frosting!
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