Detroit's Delectable Past:: Two Centuries of Frog Legs, Pigeon Pie and Drugstore Whiskey

by Bill Loomis

Book Overview

Join local food aficionado Bill Loomis on a look back at the appetites, tastes, kitchens, parties, holidays and everyday meals that defined eating in Detroit, from the earliest days as a French village to the start of the twentieth century. Whether it's at a frontier farmers' market, a Victorian twelve-course children's birthday party replete with tongue sandwiches or a five-cent-lunch diner, food is a main ingredient in a community's identity and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609496361
• ISBN13: 9781609496364
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"