Pot roast, politics, and ants in the pantry
Subtitle: Missouri's cookbook heritage
By: Carol Fisher and John Fisher.
Contributors: Fisher, John C., 1949-
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780826217912
Subjects: Cookery -- History; Cookery -- Missouri -- History; Cookery -- Missouri -- Bibliography
Genres: Bibliography.
Description: "A revealing look at the history of Missouri cookbooks from the 1800s to today. From Julia Clark's simple frontier recipes to Irma Rombauer's encyclopedic Joy of Cooking to Missouri producers' online recipe collections, the Fishers show how cookbooks provide history lessons, document changing food ways, and demonstrate the cultural diversity of the state"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cookbooks come to Missouri; title: A taste of nineteenth-century publications; title: Community cookbooks; title: A serving of ethnic cookbooks; title: Missouri cookbooks record history; title: Individually authored and edited cookbooks; title: Producer and festival cookbooks; title: Company/product cookbooks; title: Cookbooks from restaurants past and present; title: World events and politics in Missouri cookbooks; title: Kitchen medicine, housekeeping tips, and cookbook literature; title: A final perspective; title: Selected recipes.