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From hardtack to home fries : an uncommon history of American cooks and meals
As any cook knows, every meal, and every diet, has a story--whether it relates to presidents and first ladies or to the poorest of urban immigrants. Cultural historian Haber has spent years excavating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by women have shaped American history. This bo...
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Free Press,
©2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Follow the food
- Feeding the great hunger: the Irish famine and America
- Pretty much of a muchness: Civil War nurses and diet kitchens
- They dieted for our sins: America's food reformers
- The Harvey girls: good women and food food civilize the American west
- Home cooking in the FDR White House: the indomitable Mrs. Nesbitt
- Cooking behind barbed wire: POWs during World War II
- Sachertorte in Harvard Square: Jewish refugees find friends and work
- Food keeps the faith: African-American cooks and their heritage
- Growing Up with Gourmet: what cookbooks mean.