A thousand years over a hot stove : a history of American women told through food, recipes, and remembrances Laura Schenone

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schenone, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cookery--United States--History.

Cookery.

Women cooks--United States--History.

Women cooks.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton, c2003.

Contents:

Preface : Haunted by kitchen ghosts

Introduction : From her head grew pumpkin vines : a few ideas about the nature of women and food

Gathering up the earth

She cooked in a new land

Slavery at her table

Virtuous cookery : from drudgery to sacred profession

A woman's West

She fed the industrial giants

Give her your hungry

Technology's new homemaker

Recipes for tough times

Apron strings : did she cut them?

Resources for historic cooking.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-378) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line -- "To Make a Frykecy" from Martha Washington's "Booke of Cookery" [Am .003].

ISBN:

0393016714

OCLC:

52214703