Food in the Civil War era : the south /

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Imprint:East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2015.
©2015
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:American Food in History Series
American food in history.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12016950
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Other authors / contributors:Veit, Helen Zoe, editor.
ISBN:9781609174514
1609174518
1611861640
9781611861648
9781611861648
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:Almost immediately, the Civil War transformed the way Southerners ate, devastating fields and food transportation networks. The war also spurred Southerners to canonize prewar cooking styles, resulting in cuisine that retained nineteenth-century techniques in a way other American cuisines did not. This fascinating book presents a variety of Civil War-era recipes from the South, accompanied by eye-opening essays describing this tumultuous period in the way people lived and ate. The cookbooks excerpted here teem with the kinds of recipes we expect to find when we go looking for Southern food: g.
Other form:Print version: Veit, Helen Zoe. Food in the Civil War Era : The South. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©1900 9781611861648