Americas Collectible Cookbooks or Festive Food of Ireland

America's Collectible Cookbooks: The History, the Politics, the Recipes

Author: Mary Anna DuSablon

In Mary Anna DuSablon's look at the two hundred-year evolution of American cookbooks, these authors receive their due--not simply as recipe peddlers, but as shapers of American culture. This book describes how government and industry joined forces to woo women back into the kitchen after the world wars. And it hails the role of the cookbook as a fund-raiser during the many years of social reform.

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A compendium of recipes, historical narrative, publishing anecdotes, and rambling reflection about cookbooks and cookbook authors in America. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	A Genuine American Cookbook	1
2	Manuscript Cookbooks	9
3	Early New England Classics	15
4	The Great Western Expansion	38
5	Teaching the American Tradition	59
6	Little Cookbooks with Motives, Ulterior and Avowed	93
7	The Joy and the Myth	106
8	Imported Influences: Great Chefs	120
9	How to Compile a Best-Selling Homemade Cookbook	139
10	Celebrity Cooks	162
11	The Big, Beautiful Cookbook	170
12	Guru versus Gourmet: A Media Battleground	176
	Glossary of Old and Unusual North American Cooking Terms	186
	Selected Bibliography	197
	Index	203

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Festive Food of Ireland

Author: Darina Allen

Ireland's advocate of fresh, simple cooking presents recipes for the full range of traditional Irish holiday fare.