From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
by Haber, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684842173
- ISBN 13
- 9780684842172
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Free Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0684842173 . Author signed bookplate on front free endpaper. vii, 244 pp, index. Photos, a few recipes. The food historian provides detailed chapters on various types of American cooking through the ages: Irish immigrant cooking, World War II POW cooking, cuisine of the Old West, Civil War nurses and health diets, African-American culinary heritage, Jewish refugee cooking, White House cooking for FDR, food reformers, and American gourmet cooking. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36302
- Title
- From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
- Author
- Haber, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684842173
- ISBN 13
- 9780684842172
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0684842173, American Foodways, American Cooking, Food History, Culinary History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking and Gastronomy;
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Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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