They say: “You are what you eat.” If that’s true, then it also must be true in the plural and past tense form: “We were what we ate.” In honor of Columbus Monthly ’s 50th birthday, I decided to look at our food and drink coverage from the magazine’s first issue . It illustrates a few things about what Columbus ate then—who we were—and suggests a few things about who we are today.

The Food and Drink section starts on page 63—apparently it’s always been in the back of the magazine. It begins with an article by Jon Christensen called “How to Buy Wine in Ohio.” Christensen is identified as “a communications off icer in the Ohio Department of Health [who] has been drinking wine for 25 of his 34 years.” (We’ll pause to consider the implications of that math and also note that this did not s

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