You know his face from the fifty dollar bill, and the picture of him at Appomattox in a mud spattered private's coat, taking the surrender that ended the Civil War. What that portrait leaves out is the table.

From an Ohio farm kitchen to a mountain sickroom, these are the meals Ulysses S. Grant actually ate until his body gave out.

In this video:
✓ The Ohio farm breakfast he never outgrew
✓ What the general ate before the Wilderness
✓ Why he could not stand a rare steak
✓ Twenty nine courses at the Grant White House
✓ Dinner at Windsor Castle and a royal snub
✓ Banquets in Siam and China on the world tour
✓ The night Mark Twain made him laugh
✓ How his last year at the table began

The two volumes he finished on that porch came out before the year was over, sold door to door through Mark Twain's publishing house, and they sold in the hundreds of thousands. Julia never had to worry about money again.

Which plate on this countdown stuck with you, the cucumber before the Wilderness or the soup in Canton?

Leave your pick below.

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