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

Other author Veit, Helen Zoe.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEast Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2014]
Description205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Cooking, American--History. --19th century.
Cooking, American--History. --19th century. --Sources.
Cookbooks--United States. --History. --19th century.
Food--United States. --History. --19th century.
Food--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --19th century.
Food habits--United States. --History. --19th century.
United States--History. --Civil War, 1861-1865. --Social aspects.

SeriesAmerican food in history
Contents 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.
General noteIncludes index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013025306
ISBN9781611861228 (cloth : alkaline paper)

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