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Colonial Virginia's cooking dynasty /

"More diverse in scope than their modern counterparts, the cookbooks of colonial and antebellum America contained recipes, medical cures, and housekeeping information that women of that time deemed necessary for family life. The keepers of these "domestic" manuals recorded recipes and...

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Main Author: Harbury, Katharine E., 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2004.
Subjects and Genres:
1600-1775
Geschichte 1700-1743.
Cooking > Virginia > History.
Food habits > Virginia.
Cooking.
Food habits.
Ernährungsgewohnheit.
Kochen.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States.
Virginia.
Virginia
Cookbooks.
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I: Tidewater Society in Colonial Virginia
  • Men's public sphere in the Chesapeake
  • Women's private sphere: The English and Colonial Virginia prescription
  • Women's public sphere in the Chesapeake
  • Status and the cookbook authors
  • Virginia's cultural boom
  • The architectural setting
  • The kitchen
  • The dining room stage
  • Dining room decorum
  • All things French
  • Religious aspects of foods
  • The dinner table. Pt. II: Meats
  • Seafood
  • Condiments
  • Corn and other grains
  • Dairy products
  • Vegetables
  • Fruits
  • Sugar
  • The crowning glory
  • Beverages
  • Tobacco
  • Medicines
  • Conclusions. Pt. III. "Unidentified cookbook, c. 1700"
  • Anonymous
  • "Jane Randolph her cookery book, 1743"
  • Appendix: Will of Jane Randolph.

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