At home on the range
Subtitle: a cookbook
By: presented by Elizabeth Gilbert ; by Margaret Yardley Potter
Contributors: Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781936365890
Subjects: Entertaining; Cookbooks; American Cooking
Description: "While unpacking boxes of old family books recently, Elizabeth Gilbert rediscovered a dusty, yellowed hardcover called At Home on the Range, originally written by her great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. Having only been peripherally aware of the volume, Gilbert dug in with some curiosity, and soon found that she had stumbled upon a book far ahead of its time. Part scholar and part crusader for a more open food conversation, Potter espoused the importance of farmer's markets and ethnic food (Italian, Jewish, and German), derided preservatives and culinary shortcuts, and generally celebrated a devotion to epicurean adventures. Reading this practical and humorous cookbook, it's not hard to see that Gilbert inherited her great-grandmother's love of food and her warm, infectious prose."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: First published in 1947.

Includes index.