| Did frontier settlers of Missouri eat off wooden or pewter plates? |
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| No, they typically ate off the most recent table settings of cream-wares and pearl-wares. These pieces were often highly decorated. More surprisingly, the dinner sets came from England, which was at war with the U.S. for much of the late 1700s to the early 1800s. They had a very diverse diet, dominated by corn and hogs. |