Detroit's delectable past
Subtitle: two centuries of frog legs, pigeon pie and drugstore whiskey
By: Bill Loomis
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781609496364
Subjects: Social life and customs; Dinners and dining; Food; Food habits; Cooking; Food industry and trade; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. On the Town; title: Living It Up in Old Detroit : Restaurants, Taverns and Low-Lit Saloons; title: Dinner Parties during Detroit's Gilded Age; title: Christmas in Old Detroit; title: Part II. Working for a Living; title: To Market, To Market; title: The Milk Peddlers' War; title: Fishing for a Living in Detroit; title: Passenger Pigeons' Last Stand; title: Part III. Cooking at Home; title: From Stone Hearth to Cookstove; title: Cooking Lessons; title: The Detroit Kitchen : Floor to Ceiling; title: Much Ado about Mutton : Home Cooking; title: The Terror of Vegetables : Cholera in Detroit; title: Wild Game on the Table.