... into the interior, planting seeds of food globalization as they went. The Frontiers of Foreign Foods 203 Railroads were even more effective in scattering migrants about. During the war, the Lincoln ... it up the Mississippi and its tributar- ies to infl uence the cuisine of St. Louis, Terre Haute on the Wabash, and Louisville on the Ohio. The introduction of the steamboat – the fi rst was the New ... themselves, but The Frontiers of Foreign Foods 213 codfi sh did enter their diet as codfi sh cakes (or balls), often for breakfast, and in chowders. And, fi nally, housewives, as their grandmothers...