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GUSN-273568
xxxvi, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., A collection of classic recipes and inspirational stories traces the history of food and cooking in America and discusses how the power of food shaped the lives of women.
Cooking History.
Women cooks History.
Frau.
Kochen.
Schenone, Laura.
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.
New York : W.W. Norton
xxxvi, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
A collection of classic recipes and inspirational stories traces the history of food and cooking in America and discusses how the power of food shaped the lives of women.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-378) and index.
0393016714
9780393016710
Coll. TX645.S34 2003
United States
USA.
1st ed.
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