By Joan Nathan (1984)
[FROM BOOKLADY COOKS] Why I love this book: Joan Nathan is best known for her books and TV series about Jewish food, but in this book from 1984, she gathers recipes, stories and pictures from cooks and small business owners all over the US.
{FROM THE PUBLISHERS]
A Washington Post reporter looks at our culinary heritage, describes ethnic cookery and holiday menus around the country, and includes historical recipes
In An American Folklife Cookbook. food folklorist Joan Nathan tells the story of American food through its people, giving slices of life as she sees it in kitchens throughout the country. Nathan's inter- views are valuable social history and good reading, and the recipes are temptingly delicious. In her culinary journey, she presents 200 of the best of the many recipes she sampled--from the Paul Bunyan pan- cakes she ate in the cookhouse of the last live-in logging camp in America, to the Sally Lunn and buttermilk biscuits
In An American Folklife Cookbook. food folklorist Joan Nathan tells the story of American food through its people, giving slices of life as she sees it in kitchens throughout the country. Nathan's inter- views are valuable social history and good reading, and the recipes are temptingly delicious. In her culinary journey, she presents 200 of the best of the many recipes she sampled--from the Paul Bunyan pan- cakes she ate in the cookhouse of the last live-in logging camp in America, to the Sally Lunn and buttermilk biscuits which 96-vear-old Mattie Ball Fletcher still makes in her tiny kitchen in Little Washington, Virginia, to crabcakes and homemade fig cake in Frances Kitching's renowned boardinghouse on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. She includes recipes for the sauerkraut and pumpkin pies of Pennsylvania farmers, 7 different fish dishes served on Christmas Eve in the Italian community in Providence, Rhode Island, and 7 different cookies served on Christ- mas in Barbara Berg Swenson's Norwegian Minnesota home.
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