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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460164303321

Titolo

Food in the Civil War era : the south / / edited by Helen Zoe Veit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-60917-451-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

American Food in History Series

Disciplina

641.5973

Soggetti

Cooking, American - History - 19th century

Cooking, American - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Food in the Antebellum South and the Confederacy, by Christopher Farrish; Seeing the Civil War South through Its Recipes; Mary Randolph, The Virginia Housewife: or, Methodical Cook; Selections from Confederate Periodicals, 1861-1865; Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times; Maryland Recipe Manuscript, 1850s-1870; Maria Barringer, Dixie Cookery: Or How I Managed My Table for Twelve Years, For Southern Housekeepers

Annabella P. Hill, Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book: A Practical System for Private Families, in Town and CountryAbby Fisher, What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking, Soups, Pickles, Preserves, Etc.; Notes; Glossary of Nineteenth-Century Cooking Terms; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Almost immediately, the Civil War transformed the way Southerners ate, devastating fields and food transportation networks. The war also spurred Southerners to canonize prewar cooking styles, resulting in cuisine that retained nineteenth-century techniques in a way other American cuisines did not. This fascinating book presents a variety of Civil War-era recipes from the South, accompanied by eye-opening essays describing this tumultuous period in the way people lived and ate. The cookbooks excerpted here teem with the kinds of recipes we expect to find when we go looking for Southern food: g