Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty / Katharine E. Harbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harbury, Katharine E., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Virginia--History.

Cooking.

Food habits--Virginia.

Food habits.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

Virginia.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2004.

Summary:

"More diverse in scope than their modern counterparts, the cookbooks of colonial and antebellum America contained recipes, medical cures, and housekeeping information that women of that time deemed necessary for family life. The keepers of these "domestic" manuals recorded recipes and cures for their own use and the use of friends, daughters, and extended families. Because they reflect a range of daily living practices, such manuscript cookbooks serve as important social history documents. In Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty, Katharine E. Harbury brings to light two cookbooks from eighteenth-century Virginia.

Notable for their early dates and historical significance, these manuals afford previously unavailable insights into lifestyles and foodways during the evolution of Chesapeake society." "One cookbook is an anonymous work dating from 1700; the other is the 1739-1743 cookbook of Jane Bolling Randolph, a descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. In addition to her textual analysis that establishes the relationship between these two early manuscripts, Harbury links them to the 1824 classic The Virginia House-wife by Mary Randolph."--Jacket.

Contents:

Pt. I: Tidewater Society in Colonial Virginia

Men's public sphere in the Chesapeake

Women's private sphere: The English and Colonial Virginia prescription

Women's public sphere in the Chesapeake

Status and the cookbook authors

Virginia's cultural boom

The architectural setting

The kitchen

The dining room stage

Dining room decorum

All things French

Religious aspects of foods

The dinner table. Pt. II: Meats

Seafood

Condiments

Corn and other grains

Dairy products

Vegetables

Fruits

Sugar

The crowning glory

Beverages

Tobacco

Medicines

Conclusions. Pt. III. "Unidentified cookbook, c. 1700"

Anonymous

"Jane Randolph her cookery book, 1743"

Appendix: Will of Jane Randolph.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-457) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

ISBN:

157003513X

9781570035135

OCLC:

52566879