Mama's in the Kitchen: Weird & Wonderful Home Cooking 1900-1950

by Barbara Swell

Book Overview

A nostalgic, vintage cookbook full of weird and wonderful recipes that chronicles the changing kitchens of the first half of the 20th century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883206391
• ISBN13: 9781883206390
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Native Ground Music
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Nostalgic stroll down home-made culinary history

A little masterpiece of nostalgic cookery, Mama's In The Kitchen: Weird & Wonderful Home Cooking 1900-1950 showcases stories and recipes of how American women cooked their way through two world wars, food shortages, and the Great Depression. From Skewered Coconut Shrimp; Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake; and Aunt Sammy's Gingerbread with Cream Cheese Filling; to Toll House Cookies; Volcano Potatoes; and Chocolate Orange Crunchies, Mama's In The Kitchen is a superbly presented and nostalgic stroll down home-made culinary history. Enhanced further with chapters devoted to "Weird Little Sandwiches", "Foods That Wiggle", "No Way!"; "Health and Remedies"; "Household Hints"; a bibliography, and a superb little resource list for "Finding Vintage Cookbooks", Mama's In The Kitchen is a "must" for anyone who enjoys strolling down a "yesteryear" collection of culinary pleasantries.