A thousand years over a hot stove : a history of American women told through food, recipes, and remembrances

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Main Author: Schenone, Laura.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton, c2003.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.