| Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry: Missouri's Cookbook Heritage | 
 enlarge | Authors: Carol Fisher, John Fisher
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 248
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0826217915
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.509
EAN: 9780826217912
ASIN: 0826217915
Publication Date: May 25, 2008
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Product Description
This treasure trove of anecdotes and nuggets of historical information about cookery in the Show-Me State draws from more than 150 publications to reveal Missouri's cookbook heritage and to deliver a generous sampling of recipes. The Fishers scoured libraries and historical societies to find handwritten family recipe collections and mimeographed publications as well as glossy color editions. Cookbooks covered include such curiosities as the Julia Clark Household Memoranda Book from the William Clark papers, an 1880 production by the Ladies of St. Louis called My Mother's Cookbook, Mary Foote Henderson's Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving, and Albert E. Brumley's All-Day Singin' and Dinner on the Ground. Festival cookbooks, company cookbooks, even cookbooks tied to world events--they're all here in one delightful book and its extensive bibliography.
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A surprisingly involved treasury of anecdotes concerning the history of cookbooks July 11, 2008
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Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry: Missouri's Cookbook Heritage is not a cookbook per se - rather, it is a surprisingly involved treasury of anecdotes concerning the history of cookbooks and food preparation in Missouri, the Show Me State. From traditional "kitchen medicine", to household tips that have been passed down through the generations, to extensive cookbook collections preserved in libraries, historical societies, and the shelves of private individuals, to how the Internet has transformed modern-day recipe sharing, Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry is a thoroughly entertaining tour de force of how love of good Missouri cooking has been passed along through the generations.
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