| Food in the Civil War Era: The North Contributor(s): Veit, Helen Zoe (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1611861225 ISBN-13: 9781611861228 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | History - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - American - General |
| Dewey: 641.597 |
| LCCN: 2013025306 |
| Series: American Food in History |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 8.21" W x 8.44" (1.42 lbs) 250 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cookbooks offer a unique and valuable way to examine American life. Their lessons, however, are not always obvious. Direct references to the American Civil War were rare in cookbooks, even in those published right in the middle of it. In part, this is a reminder that lives went on and that dinner still appeared on most tables most nights, no matter how much the world was changing outside. But people accustomed to thinking of cookbooks as a source for recipes, and not much else, can be surprised by how much information they can reveal about the daily lives and ways of thinking of the people who wrote and used them. In this fascinating historical compilation, excerpts from five Civil War-era cookbooks present a compelling portrait of cooking and eating in the urban north of the 1860s United States. |
Contributor Bio(s): Veit, Helen Zoe: - Helen Zoe Veit is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She specializes in American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the history of food and nutrition. She is the author of Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century, and general editor of the American Food in History Series. |