Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage : Two Hundred Years of Southern Cuisine and Culture.

Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage : Two Hundred Years of Southern Cuisine and Culture.

Food is a significant part of our daily lives and can be one of the most telling records of a time and place. Our meals -- from what we eat, to how we prepare it, to how we consume it -- illuminate our culture and history. As a result, cookbooks present a unique opportunity to analyze changing foodw...

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Main Author: Van Willigen, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Cooking, American > Southern style.
Cooking > Kentucky > History.
Cooking > Kentucky > History > 19th century.
Cooking > Kentucky > Bibliography.
COOKING > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Cookbooks
Cooking
Cooking, American > Southern style
Kentucky
Cookbook
cookbooks.
Bibliographies
History
Cookbooks.
Livres de cuisine.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: cookbooks as the key to Kentucky foodways and culinary history
  • The first Kentucky cookbook: antebellum hearth cooking
  • The needs of the "new regime": Post-Civil War cookbooks
  • A turning point: the early twentieth century
  • Hard times: the Great Depression and the New Deal
  • New foods and new roles: World War II
  • Convenience and innovation: the mid-twentieth century
  • Iconic recipes and Kentucky foodways: the bicentennials and beyond
  • Eating locally and sustainably: contemporary Kentucky cookbooks
  • Annotated bibliography of Kentucky cookbooks.

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