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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464397403321

Titolo

Food in the Civil War era : the North / / edited by Helen Zoe Veit ; Erin Kirk, book design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60917-412-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

American Food in History

Disciplina

641.5973

Soggetti

Cooking, American - History - 19th century

Cookbooks - United States - History - 19th century

Food - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 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; Mrs. S. G. Knight, Tit-Bits;  Or, How to Prepare a Nice Dish at a Moderate Expense; 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; Ann Howe, The American Kitchen Directory and Housewife

What Shall We Eat? A Manual for Housekeepers, Comprising a Bill of Fare for Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea, for Every Day in the YearNotes; Glossary of Nineteenth-Century Cooking Terms; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 still appeared on most tables most nights, no matter how much the world was changing outside. But people accustomed to thinking of cookbooks as a source for recipes, and not much else, can



be surprised by how much information they can reveal about the daily lives and ways of thinking of the people wh