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This cookbook series, especially tailored to high school students in format and content, offers a wealth of fresh recipes to complement the most-studied historical periods. Each title includes a brief introduction to the period and then an …
Food in Colonial and Federal America
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The success of the new settlements in what is now the United States depended on food. This book tells about the bounty that was here and how Europeans forged a society and culture, beginning with help from the Indians and eventually incorporating …
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The story of the iconic MoonPie provides the framework for this unusual historical biography of the South and its most revered snack. Developed in 1917 in response to coal miners' request for a filling - yet portable - snack, the MoonPie quickly …
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Both an entertaining collection of recipes (which quickly become stories in themselves) and a fascinating slice of life from a century ago. Egg yolks are yelks, there are not one, but two mock turtle recipes that require the scalding and cleaning …
Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South
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EATING, DRINKING, AND VISITING IN THE SOUTH presents a lively, informal history of over three centuries of southern hospitality and cuisine, tracing regional gastronomy from the sparse diet of Jamestown settlers to the lavish corporate cocktail …
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History students and Victorian enthusiasts looking for comprehensive information on dining practices of Victorian America will find this book a vital resource. Revealing the history of 19th-century dining, clothing, and etiquette, the volume …
Patriotic Guidebook for the 4th of July Celebration Feast
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Patriotic Guidebook for the Fourth of July Celebration Feast contains 13 easy-to-follow steps that bring the most exciting events in American history to life and creates an unforgettable revolutionary experience right at your family dinner table. …
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For two decades Shirley Fong-Torres has guided 20,000 visitors a year through San Francisco's Chinatown. This book shows why so many keep coming back for more. It's Chinese-American history with a bottomless appetite for quirky anecdotes, …
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning first installment of the outstanding civil rights-era series comes to audio! Epic in scope and impact, this audiobook is hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement. Moving from …
The Supreme Court in Conference
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In public, Supreme Court Justices are not known for their candor while ruling upon a case. In private, however, a few days after hearing oral arguments, before deciding upon the case, the Justices openly discuss their views in what is known as …
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Set against the dual backdrop of World War I and the devastating 1918 influenza epidemic, The Last Town On Earth is a brilliantly drawn tale of morality and patriotism in a time of upheaval. Deep in the evergreen woods of Washington State lies …
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In this refreshingly clear-eyed book, written with no agenda other than to record his experiences and insights for the benefit of history, McClellan provides a unique perspective on what happened and why it happened the way it did, including the …
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have …
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have …
Libations of the Eighteenth Century
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manual dedicated to recreating the brewed beverages that existed in the American Colonies. All of the historic recipes were documented as dating from 1800 or earlier, and all were taste-tested. The book consists of more than fifty recipes for ale,…
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For two decades Shirley Fong-Torres has guided 20,000 visitors a year through San Francisco's Chinatown. This book shows why so many keep coming back for more. It's Chinese-American history with a bottomless appetite for quirky anecdotes, …
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'Thousands of years ago, before Christ or Buddha or Muhammad...before the Roman Empire rose or the Colossus of Rhodes fell', Eric Burns writes, 'people in Asia Minor were drinking beer'. So begins an account as entertaining as it is extensive, of …
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Foodways v. 7
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When the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture was published in 1989, the topic of foodways was relatively new as a field of scholarly inquiry. Food has always been central to southern culture, but the past twenty years have brought an …
Food in the United States, 1830-1890
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Pillsbury came into being, as did Quaker Oats and other icons of American food. This volume describes the beginnings of many familiar mainstays of our daily life and consumer culture. It chronicles the shift from farming to agribusiness.
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For many families the high price of gas means trimming spending in other areas. Reducing spending on meat, doesn't have to mean major diet changes. Families who have used meats more generously in the past need to adjust menus carefully now. You …
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And while a mania for all things British was a unifying feature of eighteenth-century cuisine, the colonies discovered a national beverage in (domestically brewed) beer, which came to symbolize solidarity and loyalty to the patriotic cause in the …
A History of Wine in America: v. 2
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An account of winemaking in the United States, first as it was carried out under Prohibition, and then as it developed and spread to all fifty states after the repeal of Prohibition. This book describes how Prohibition devastated the wine …
An Antebellum Plantation Household
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At the age of nineteen, Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton plantation in an isolated area in the South Carolina Low Country. In monthly letters to her northern family, she …
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Southwestern recipes with a flair for the dramatic! More than 100 tempting recipes combined with history, legends and folklore from Billy the Kid country.
Eat, Drink and be Merry in Maryland
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Frederick Philip Stieff, son of the piano-making Baltimore family, was a celebrated amateur chef and a menu historian. He collected, mainly using hand-written family papers and the memories of aged cooks, old Maryland recipes. This volume …
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Beer has fermented fundamental change in human society from gender roles to religious theologies. It helped establish civilisation, sparked the Industrial Revolution, and triggered scientific theories. Today, beer activists are fermenting a …
Food, Drink and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley Dutch
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In 1609, Henry Hudson, under contract with the Dutch East India Company, set out to discover the lucrative Northwest Passage. The Hudson River Valley is what he discovered instead, and along its banks Dutch culture took hold. While the Dutch …
Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats
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This is the family cookbook Martha Washington kept and used for fifty years, with over five hundred classic recipes dating largely from Elizabethan and Jacobean times, the golden age of English cookery.
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Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from a juicy soup dumpling, eating in New York City is a culinary adventure unlike any other in the …
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Lively, illustrated history of alcohol and prohibition in the state of Arkansas.