Beantown is Green.
Beantown is Greentown according to Intelligent Travel.
With “…recycling programs, public transportation (who doesn’t love the “T”?) and a proposed energy project that would capture methane gas from composted yard clippings and restaurant food scraps…”, Beantown Boston sure is acting green. You can read the full Beantown is Greentown post to find out more.
Now, for those of you (like me) who don’t know Boston is also known as Beantown, I did a little investigating. I wanted to know how Boston had inherited such a title. Here’s the scoop.
According to Boston Online …
” Back in colonial days, a favorite Boston food was beans baked in molasses for several hours. Back then, Boston was sort of awash in molasses – it was part of the “triangular trade” in which slaves in the Caribbean grew sugar cane to be shipped to Boston to be made into rum to be sent to West Africa to buy more slaves to send to the West Indies. Even after the end of this practice, Boston continued as big rum producing city – the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 (which killed 21), ocurred when a tank holding molasses for rum production exploded. Today, Boston baked beans are something of a rarity – there are no companies in the city making it and only a few restaurants serve it…”
So now you know…
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Thanks Liz for highlighting Intelligent Travel and for the historical tip!
hi Marilyn, I’ve got Boston on my radar for my next big trip back to the States so was happy to find out about it’s green places…finding out why it’s called beantown was an added bonus.
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