In this illustrated cookbook, the James Beard Award-winning chef shares fifty fabulous recipes that make deviled eggs the perfect fare for any occasion.
Take a fresh look at what you put on the table with The Founding Farmers Cookbook: 100 Recipes for True Food & Drink, from one of America's most popular and sustainable restaurants.
This encyclopedic collection contains forty-four chapters with hundreds of recipes, and it includes discussions of methodology and ingredients as well as detailed recipes for a stunning array of dishes.
In the unknown author's preface, she describes her purpose as to provide ladies with suggestions for what is reasonable for their tables for each day in the week, so they can easily provide an agreeable variety to their families.
Published in 1809 when distillation of spirits was legal, The Practical Distiller provides recipes and distillation methods for homemade whiskey, gin, and brandy as well as history of the various ways that alcohol has been made since the 1600s.
Published in New York in 1871 and covering an extensive range of practical and wholesome recipes, De Witt's Connecticut Cook Book, and Housekeeper's Assistant includes recipes for everything from soups, roasting, broiling, and stewing meats, and coffees to vegetables, pickling, breads, preserving jellies and fruits, cakes, and cheese.
Published in 1873 in New York, The New Housekeeper’s Manual was written by Catharine Esther Beecher and her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, two of the most influential women writers and activists of their time.
Once life and culture had stabilized in the 19th century and moved beyond the frontier focus on subsistence and survival, Americans began to explore the idea of improving health and creating more comfortable lifestyles.
According to the unknown author, "e;Without a perfect knowledge of the art of Carving, it is impossible to perform the honor of the table with propriety; and nothing can be more disagreeable to one of a sensitive disposition, than to behold a person, at the head of a well-furnished board, hacking the finest joints, and giving them the appearance of having been gnawed by dogs.
Claiming to be "e;the fruit of the personal experiences of at least a thousand housekeepers,"e; the book reprints the contents of the New York Times Sunday edition Household Column, which apparently was extremely popular in its day, and the public clamored for reprints of the column's recipes.
The American publication of Cottage Economy by Stephen Gould and Sons was basically a compilation of a series of pamphlets published by Cobbett in 1821 in England.
This down-to-earth kitchen companion "e;for frugal and economical housekeepers"e; was designed to help reconstitute the rich cookery traditions of the region that had been interrupted by the Civil War, and adapt them to the new requirements for thrift and "e;making do.
First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742.
From her writing and recipe style, Lady Harriet was clearly a sophisticated woman of means who deplored the "e;unpalatable horrible attempts at entrees, dignified with some high-sounding French name, made by the general run of English cooks.
The particular emphasis on varieties of seafood in The New England Cook Book, including specific recipes for cod, halibut, striped and sea bass, black fish, shad, salt cod, fish cakes, lobsters and crabs, "e;scollops,"e; eels, clams, and oysters easily identifies the book's origins.
Self published by the founder of the New York Cooking School, this forty-page leaflet was designed to educate new immigrant families with low incomes about preparing good, healthy meals.
The author of Pie Contest in a Box gets chili fans fired up with "e;a playful kit with judge and prize ribbons, scorecards and an instruction manual"e; (Statesman).
"e;A collection of recipes, tips and stories about ribs of nearly every meat variety"e; from the bestselling authors of America's Best BBQ (The Pitch).
From the public television host, a tour of the US's oldest and greatest dining spots-with "e;delightful tales, delicious recipes, and hundreds of photographs"e; (Ted Allen, host of Food Network's Chopped).
The first edition of this very popular nineteenth century cookbook was published in 1839 as The American Housewife, later expanded to The Kitchen Directory and American Housewife and often republished as The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory.
The unnamed author of this charming almanac/cookbook concoction was as a "e;lady of [New York] who has kept an extensive Boarding-house, for twenty-two years in Pearl St.
In this illustrated cookbook, the James Beard Award-winning chef shares fifty fabulous recipes that make deviled eggs the perfect fare for any occasion.
