03344nam 2200685 450 991046439740332120200520144314.01-60917-412-7(CKB)3710000000103735(EBL)1810034(SSID)ssj0001255868(PQKBManifestationID)11837406(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001255868(PQKBWorkID)11245929(PQKB)10950776(MiAaPQ)EBC3338357(MiAaPQ)EBC1810034(Au-PeEL)EBL3338357(CaPaEBR)ebr10859969(OCoLC)878830212(Au-PeEL)EBL1810034(OCoLC)892798872(EXLCZ)99371000000010373520140422h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFood in the Civil War era the North /edited by Helen Zoe Veit ; Erin Kirk, book designEast Lansing, Michigan :Michigan State University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (216 p.)American Food in HistoryIncludes index.1-61186-122-5 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 HousewifeWhat 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; IndexCookbooks 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 whAmerican Food in History.Cooking, AmericanHistory19th centuryCooking, AmericanHistory19th centurySourcesCookbooksUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFoodUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Social aspectsElectronic books.Cooking, AmericanHistoryCooking, AmericanHistoryCookbooksHistoryFoodHistory641.5973Veit Helen ZoeKirk ErinMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464397403321Food in the Civil War era2243482UNINA