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Food in the Civil War era : the North /

Cookbooks offer a unique and valuable way to examine American life. Their lessons, however, are not always obvious. Direct references to the American Civil War were rare in cookbooks, even in those published right in the middle of it. In part, this is a reminder that lives went on and that dinner st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Veit, Helen Zoe (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2014.
Colección:American food in history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Feeding the North / by Kelly J. Sisson Lessens and Adam Arenson
  • Seeing the Civil War era through its cookbooks: Mary Hooker Cornelius, The young housekeeper's friend (Boston : Taggard & Thompson, 1863); Mrs. S.G. Knight, Tit-bits, or, How to prepare a nice dish at a moderate expense (Boston : Crosby and Nichols, 1864); P.K.S., What to do with the cold mutton : a book of réchauffés, together with many other approved receipts for the kitchen of a gentleman of moderate income (New York : Bunce and Huntington, Publishers, 1865); Ann Howe, The American kitchen directory and housewife (Cincinnati : howe's Subscription Book Concern, 1868); What shall we eat? A manual for housekeepers, comprising a bill of fare for breakfast, dinner, and tea, for every day in the year (New York : G.P. Putnam & Son, 1868)
  • Glossary of nineteenth-century cooking terms.