Food historian and author, Sandy Oliver, will speak about early New England food in a presentation, “How We Ate: Early American Fare,” at 1 p.m., Saturday, March 6, at a meeting of the Greater Portland Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society. A 12:30 p.m. social time will precede the meeting, to be held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 29 Ocean House Road.
Oliver will discuss how New Englanders became cider drinkers and eaters of baked beans, brown bread, and pumpkin pie after eating pease porridge, roast beef and beer in England.
Oliver’s book, “Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Food at Sea and Ashore in the Nineteenth Century,” won a Julia Child Cookbook Award.
Visit the chapter Web site, www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~megpcmgs/, for information.