The Old-Time Brand-Name Cookbook: Recipes, Illustrations, and Advice from the Early Kitchens of America's Most Trusted Food Makers (Abradale Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)I am surprised at how much I love this book! I would call it a compendium of social, industrial, culinary, agricultural, USAmerican women's history. And yet there's nothing pretentious about it-- it's homey, in fact, and quite usable for a cookbook with such a theme. Crumpacker pulls off quite a feat: updating old-fashioned American recipes without making kitsch of them, which other similar books do. I recommend this book to everyone interested in cooking and the many contexts in which recipes are invented, reproduced, and prepared, and I plan to give a copy to all my foody friends!

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The Best of Virginia Farms Cookbook and Tour Book: Recipes, People, Places Review

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(More customer reviews)This book was displayed in the Welcome Center at the Virginia State line.
I looked through it and decided it was one I HAD to have. I made note of it in my little "black" book and when I returned home to the Northwest I knew I could count on Amazon.com to get it to me.

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As the cradle of American agriculture, Virginia's history has been molded by a way of life directly connected to the land. This colorful, graphically striking book captures the intimate relationship between the state's identity and its agriculture with interviews, tours, sidebars, essays, and recipes, along with evocative illustrations and maps. Combining useful information, agricultural history, and recipes from Virginia's political leaders, celebrities, chefs, and farm families, noted author CiCi Williamson has created a book that entertains and educates readers about the state's land, people, and food. Throughout, Williamson highlights Virginia's traditional small-farm values, organic farming practices, and enlightened corporate farming programs. From a trip to historic Jamestown and Yorktown to a mariner's tour of the lower Chesapeake Bay to a weekend tour of central Virginia's wineries, the 17 driving tours sprinkled throughout the book encourage readers to discover historic farmsteads, museums, plantations, and more.

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City Tavern Cookbook: Two Hundred Years Of Classic Recipes From America's First Gourmet Restaurant Review

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(More customer reviews)With its focus on the cuisine of a grand restaurant in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia (George Washington dined there!),this is a great book in which to find inspiration for Thankgsiving dinner. You MUST try the pepper-pot soup! It is spicy and sexy, and does not contain tripe as many old recipes for this dish do. I learned from the City Tavern Cookbook about the influence of Caribbean spices and flavors in 18th-century America--that's what makes this soup so good. I am a cookbook aficionado and keep current on all the top chefs, restaurants, and food trends.This is one I'll really use. The text has lots of interesting tidbits about the history of food in early America to make it worth reading, but it's also very lively. Most important, the recipes are wonderful, and they call for ingredients you can buy at the supermarket.

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Civil War Recipes: Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book Review

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(More customer reviews)With its well-written introduction, this marvelous book is a great way to read about one aspect of life during the American Civil War.
These recipes are taken verbatim from a magazine that was fairly widely read by the ladies of the North and South. They are all dated with the year they were published, in some cases more than once. There's a glossary and notes to help you read the somewhat antique language. There's also a wonderful reference list, with lots of titles for the Civil War historian to look for.
I wanted this book because I love being in the kitchen. I also wanted to improve my knowledge of history, as seen through the eyes of the wives, mothers and daughters. As a genealogist, this book enhances what little I know about my female Civil War ancestors. As an added bonus, many of these recipes sound recreateable in the modern kitchen! This is a great read, even if you're not a cook.

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