Home on the Range : a culinary history of the American West / Cathy Luchetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luchetti, Cathy, 1945-

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Great Plains--History.

Cooking.

Women pioneers--Great Plains--History.

Women pioneers.

Frontier and pioneer life--Great Plains.

Frontier and pioneer life.

History.

Great Plains.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor)

Physical Description:

xxxiii, [1], 238 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 x 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

New York : Division of Random House, Inc.,

Place of Publication:

New York : Villard Books, 1993.

Contents:

Part I-Cookin' by the Mile. Round the Horn: H. C. Bailey; Trappers, Traders, Explorers, Travelers: Osborne Russell, Captain Frederick Marryat, Joseph Spaulding, Isabella Bird, Isaac Van Dorsey Mossman; Military Cuisine: Martha Summerhays; Overlanders: Minnie Lee Cardwell Miller, Julia Brier

Part II-Boomtown: Gold Rush Cooking. Boarding House Fare and Hotel Cooking: Mary Ballou, Luzena Stanley Wilson, Hermann J. Sharmann, Joseph J. McCloskey, Carlisle S. Abbott, Michael MacGowan, Mary McNair Mathews

Part III-Cookin' on the Range: Cowboy Chefs. Chuck Wagon Cooking; Ranch Fare: Oliver Nelson, William French

Part IV-Settling in: Calico Cooks. Homestead and Farm Fare: Miriam Colt; On the Frontier: Millie Dorsey Sanford, Elinore Pruitt Stewart; On the Farm: Elizabeth Koren, Emily Hawley Gillespie, Hazel Webb Dalziel, Nancy Jane Fenn McPherson; Life in Town

Part V-Cookin' with Faith: Clerics and Camp Cooks. Revival Foods and Mission Fare: H. C. Bailey, Keturah Penton Belknap, Hannah Crosby, Mission Concepción, Sister Blandina Segale, Father Paul Le Jeune

Part VI-The Melting Pot: Ethnic Diversity on the Frontier. Ethnic Influences on Western Cooking. Native American; John Rope; Spanish Americans: José Ramon Pico, Arcadia Bandini Brennan; Chinese and Japanese: ^Yoshisada Kawai; African Americans.

Notes:

"Frontier recipes and memories from the pioneers of the early West (1800-1915)"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235)

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

ISBN:

0679744843 :

OCLC:

26399037