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The American kitchen, 1700 to the present : from hearth to highrise / Ellen M. Plante.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 652 .C37 no.506
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plante, Ellen M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kitchens--United States--History.
- Kitchens.
- Cooking--United States--History.
- Cooking.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Facts on File, ©1995.
- Summary:
- Presents the history of American kitchens, including recipes and household hints from different time periods, details of new technologies, and more than one hundred reproductions of antique advertisements.
- Contents:
- The Colonial kitchen 1700-1839
- The Early Victorian kitchen 1840-1869
- The Late Victorian kitchen 1870-1899
- The Post-Victorian kitchen 1900-1919
- The Modern kitchen 1920-1939
- The Kitchen as we know it 1940-1990s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-319) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0816030383
- 9780816030385
- OCLC:
- 30976937
- Online:
- Klappentext
- Klappentext
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