Food in the Civil War Era - 9781611861228

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 who wrote and used them. In this fascinating historical compilation, excerpts from five Civil War?era cookbooks present a compelling portrait of cooking and eating in the urban north of the 1860s United States.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: Food in the Civil War Era
• Sottotitolo: The North
• Lingua: English
• Autore:  Veit Helen Zoe (EDT)
• Editore: Michigan State Univ Pr
• Collana: Michigan State Univ Pr (Hardcover)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '14
• Genere: Lingua Inglese
• Argomenti :  Cooking, American History 19th century Cooking, American History 19th century Sources Cookbooks United States History 19th century
• Pagine: 205
• Dimensioni mm: 203 x 203 x 0
• EAN-13: 9781611861228