Vintage Southern Cookbook: 2,000 Delicious Dishes From Dixie
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What do you get when you combine 19th-Century Southern recipes with a 21st-Century Southern historian? You get Vintage Southern Cookbook: 2,000 Delicious Dishes From Dixie, an extraordinary culinary collection by award-winning Tennessee author and historian Lochlainn Seabrook.
Created as part of Seabrook's ongoing effort to preserve Southern history and culture, this encyclopedic volume contains some 2,000 old-fashioned recipes selected from early American sources dating from 1838 to 1924. Familiar favorites mingle with long-forgotten dishes, providing a fascinating window into the kitchens, dining rooms, tastes, ingredients, and food traditions of earlier generations.
The recipes are conveniently organized into 28 chapters covering the principal categories of food and drink, including beverages, breads, soups, meats, poultry, seafood, fruits, vegetables, sauces, preserves, cakes, pies, puddings, candies, and much more. Many dishes are distinctly Southern, while others reveal influences reaching from New England and the West Coast to Europe, Russia, and beyond.
Reflecting the varied culinary traditions that helped shape the American South, the collection includes recipes associated with European American, African American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Latin American foodways, carefully selected by the author-editor from a broad assortment of historical sources.
And Vintage Southern Cookbook offers far more than recipes. This lavishly produced work includes approximately 600 illustrations, a 50-page index, nearly 2,000 endnotes, a detailed bibliography, and seven appendices containing practical historical advice on cooking, serving, dining, and household management from Victorian-era kitchen authorities.
Seabrook's informative introduction and traditional artistic presentation give this massive reference work a warm, down-home character that home cooks, gourmets, campers, homesteaders, back-to-the-land enthusiasts, food historians, cookbook collectors, and Civil War living historians and reenactors will appreciate.
Whether you are searching for authentic historical recipes, researching Southern foodways, exploring America's culinary heritage, or simply looking for something unusual to put on the supper table, Vintage Southern Cookbook provides an enormous treasury of dishes from the past.
2,000 recipes. 28 chapters. 600 illustrations. Seven appendices. One remarkable journey through historic Southern cooking.
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