The Anglican Church sent Charles Woodmason on a mission to the Carolina upland in 1766. He found little to his liking, especially in the larders, as he related in his diaries, published as The Carolina Back Country on the Eve of the Revolution: “Nothing but Indian Corn Meal to be had Bacon and Eggs in some Places—No Butter, Rice, or Milk—As for Tea and Coffee they know it not. These people are all from Ireland, and live wholly on Buttermilk, Clabber and what in Engla