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  • The Frugal Housewife

    Series series American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection
    The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook was the only cookbook published in the United States during the 50-year period before publication of American Cookery by Amelia Simmons—the first truly American cookbook. Originally published in the United Kingdom, Susannah Carter's work was hugely successful, and after achieving best-seller status in that market, it was published for an American ... Read more

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  • The Frugal Housewife

    Series series American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection
    The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook was the only cookbook published in the United States during the 50-year period before publication of American Cookery by Amelia Simmons—the first truly American cookbook. Originally published in the United Kingdom, Susannah Carter's work was hugely successful, and after achieving best-seller status in that market, it was published for an American ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • American Cake

    From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best-Loved Cakes

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    Taste your way through America with more than 125 recipes for our favorite historical cakes and frostings.Cakes in America aren't just about sugar, flour, and frosting. They have a deep, rich history that developed as our country grew. Cakes, more so than other desserts, are synonymous with celebration and coming together for happy times. They're an icon of American culture, reflecting heritage, ... Read more

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  • The Best of The Farmer's Wife Cookbook: Over 400 blue-ribbon recipes!

    Over 400 blue-ribbon recipes!

    Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmer's Wife magazine gave hard-working rural women a place to find-and share-advice about everything from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen. One of the magazine's most popular offerings was advice on cooking and baking, providing farm family recipes for making everything from basic bread to nourishing stews and ... Read more

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  • Chop Suey

    A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States

    by Andrew Coe ...
    In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides the authoritative history of the American infatuation with Chinese food, telling its fascinating story ... Read more

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  • The American Plate

    A Culinary History in 100 Bites

    "Like many miniencyclopedias, this one is studded with often intriguing facts."—KirkusNew York Post Required Reading and an Entertainment Weekly Top 3 Must-Read!**From the chief historian at HISTORY® comes a rich chronicle of the evolution of American cuisine and culture, from before Columbus's arrival to today.Did you know that the first graham crackers were designed to reduce sexual desire? Or ... Read more

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  • Housekeeping in the Blue Grass

    A New and Practical Cook Book

    The category of "charity cookbook" is a favorite in American culinary history. Funds raised by sales of these cookbooks, with recipes donated by women's groups and church societies, were used to aid a wide variety of local causes and charities. Housekeeping in the Blue Grass belongs in this category—an excellent example of regional cooking styles of the post-Civil War Midwest.Several hundred ... Read more

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  • The New American Cooking: A James Beard Award Winner

    280 Recipes Full of Delectable New Flavors From Around the World as Well as Fresh Ways with Old Favorites: A Cookbook

    by Joan Nathan ...
    Joan Nathan, the author of Jewish Cooking in America, An American Folklife Cookbook, and many other treasured cookbooks, now gives us a fabulous feast of new American recipes and the stories behind them that reflect the most innovative time in our culinary history.The huge influx of peoples from all over Asia--Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, India--and from the Middle East and Latin America in the ... Read more

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  • The American Family Keepsake

    Or, People's Practical Cyclopedia

    Published in 1848 in Boston, The American Family Keepsake contains an enormous variety of information—everything from medicinal cures to common childhood illnesses to recipes to farming to "Indian Recipes" to sewing, and dressing. With instructions on how to cure "hiccoughs" by "a few swallows of vinegar," to properly setting a table (always set soup, broth, or fish at the head of the table), to ... Read more

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  • The Cook Not Mad

    Or, Rational Cookery

    by The Cookbook ...
    Series series American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection
    Published in 1830 in North America, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection stresses American cooking over European cuisine.Within a year of its publication in the United States, The Cook Not Mad was also published in Canada and thus became Canada's first printed cookbook. In contrast to some of the larger encyclopedic cookbook collections of the day, The Cook Not Mad provides ... Read more

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  • The Hand-Book of Carving

    According to the unknown author, "Without a perfect knowledge of the art of Carving, it is impossible to perform the honor of the table with propriety; and nothing can be more disagreeable to one of a sensitive disposition, than to behold a person, at the head of a well-furnished board, hacking the finest joints, and giving them the appearance of having been gnawed by dogs."This slim volume ... Read more

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