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  • Soyer's Charitable Cookery by Soyer, Alexis Benoît
    Alexis Beno? Soyer

    Soyer's Charitable Cookery

    First published in 1847, this cookbook was originally written for the benefit of the poor. Soyer, a French chef who worked in London, hoped to teach people how to cook nutritious meals with limited resources. The recipes are still relevant today and offer a...
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  • Murray's Modern Cookery Book. Modern Domestic Cookery, by a Lady by Cookery, Modern Domestic
    Modern Domestic Cookery

    Murray's Modern Cookery Book. Modern Domestic Cookery, by a Lady

    Published in the mid-19th century, this cookbook is a fascinating glimpse into the culinary practices of Victorian England. It features hundreds of recipes for everything from breads and pastries to meats and vegetables, along with tips on preserving and serving food. The book's author,...
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  • One Hundred-portion War Time Recipes; Wheatless, Economical, Tested by Nettleton, Bertha E.
    Bertha E. Nettleton

    One Hundred-portion War Time Recipes; Wheatless, Economical, Tested

    Published during World War I, this cookbook provides valuable insight into the challenges of cooking during a time of rationing and shortages. The recipes are both practical and creative, using alternative ingredients and stretching resources to the max. A fascinating resource for anyone interested...
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  • The Scholars' Handbook of Household Management and Cookery by Tegetmeier, William Bernhard
    William Bernhard Tegetmeier

    The Scholars' Handbook of Household Management and Cookery

    A comprehensive guide to domestic management and cooking, The Scholar's Handbook offers practical advice on a wide range of topics, from menu planning to kitchen organization. Written in the 19th century, this book reflects the values and concerns of a bygone era, while also...
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  • Sweet Taste of History: More Than 100 Elegant Dessert Recipes from America's Earliest Days by Staib, Walter
    Walter Staib

    Sweet Taste of History: More Than 100 Elegant Dessert Recipes from America's Earliest Days

    A Sweet Taste of History captures the grandeur of the sweet table--the grand finale course of an 18th century meal. Rather than serving something simple, hostesses arranged elaborate sweet tables, displays of ornate beauty and delicious edibles meant to leave guests with a lasting...
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  • A Taste Of How American Ancestors Lived: Home Life, Cooking And The Raising Of Children In 19th Century: The Boarding Houses Of The Working Class In A by Sulzman, Sydney
    Sydney Sulzman

    A Taste Of How American Ancestors Lived: Home Life, Cooking And The Raising Of Children In 19th Century: The Boarding Houses Of The Working Class In A

    This book writes about the 19th century. The author obviously spends a great deal of time researching home life, cooking and the raising of children in that era. Without the modern day conveniences of today, which would not be a bad thing, children were...
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  • A Little Book Of Cheese by Burdett, Osbert
    Osbert Burdett

    A Little Book Of Cheese

    INTRODUCTION A book devoted exclusively to the appreciation of cheese has long been needed. So wrote Mr Morton Shand eight years ago, l and so far as can be discovered such a book has yet to be written. But in the interval such clubs...
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  • Mrs. Charles H. Gibson's Maryland And Virginia Cookbook: Containing Numerous Valuable Receipts For Aid In Housekeeping (1894) by Gibson, Charles H.
    Charles H. Gibson

    Mrs. Charles H. Gibson's Maryland And Virginia Cookbook: Containing Numerous Valuable Receipts For Aid In Housekeeping (1894)

    Mrs. Charles H. Gibson's Maryland and Virginia Cookbook, published in 1894, is a comprehensive guide to cooking and housekeeping in the late 19th century. The book contains a vast collection of valuable recipes and tips for managing a household, with a particular focus on...
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  • The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography by Dott, Brian R.
    Brian R. Dott

    The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography

    Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao's boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth-century novel...
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  • Signature Cocktails by Schuster, Amanda
    Amanda Schuster

    Signature Cocktails

    ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Epicurious, Vice, Food & WineA HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE SELECTION: Bloomberg, Saveur, Imbibe, Good Housekeeping, Sharp Magazine, Liquor.com, ELLE DecorationA collection of 200 iconic drinks from around the globe, each of which has changed the culture of...
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  • Recipes of a Pitchfork Ranch Hostess: The Culinary Legacy of Mamie Burns by Buesseler, Cathryn
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    Recipes of a Pitchfork Ranch Hostess: The Culinary Legacy of Mamie Burns

    The Pitchfork Land and Cattle Company of West Texas had already established a reputation for the high quality of its cattle and horses when D and Mamie Burns arrived on the ranch in 1942. D became the fifth manager of the ranch's vast holdings,...
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  • Well-Loved Traditional Dishes: How Enslaved Africans Influenced American Diet: How And What African Former Slaves Ate by Adzhabakyan, Mack
    Mack Adzhabakyan

    Well-Loved Traditional Dishes: How Enslaved Africans Influenced American Diet: How And What African Former Slaves Ate

    Enslaved Africans also brought watermelon, okra, yams, black-eyed peas and some peppers. These foods are commonly eaten in the U.S. today. African influences on American cooking, both in obvious "Soul food" and largely unacknowledged "subtle Soul." Early West African food traditions are surveyed, along...
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  • Welcome to Junior's!: Remembering Brooklyn with Recipes and Memories from Its Favorite Restaurant by Rosen
    Rosen

    Welcome to Junior's!: Remembering Brooklyn with Recipes and Memories from Its Favorite Restaurant

    Welcome to Junior's is a nostalgic tour of Brooklyn from the 1930s to the 1990s with reminiscences and recipes from the legendary restaurant renowned for its rich and creamy cheesecake. Junior's holds a special place in Brooklyn, also home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Coney...
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  • The Blue Grass Cook Book by Fox, Minnie C.
    Minnie C. Fox

    The Blue Grass Cook Book

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Food Cultures of China: Recipes, Customs, and Issues by Guo, Qian
    Qian Guo

    Food Cultures of China: Recipes, Customs, and Issues

    Exploring the rich and varied culinary traditions of China, this book enables a better understanding of Chinese history and culture through food. Part of Bloomsbury's Global Kitchen series, this book takes readers on a food tour of China, covering everything from daily staples to...
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  • Ohio Buckeye Candy: A Sweet History by Cook, Renee Casteel
    Renee Casteel Cook

    Ohio Buckeye Candy: A Sweet History

    Explore the history of Ohio's one-bite wonder! From humble origins, the buckeye has become Ohio's namesake candy. Though a classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter, each producer's offering is as bespoke as the buckeye is beloved. Taste tradition in Amish country at Coblentz...
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  • Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook by Urbach, Karina
    Karina Urbach

    Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

    "A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour"Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson "In a remarkable new book, Alice's granddaughter Karina, a noted historian, has traced what happened to her...
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  • The Book of Pintxos: Discover the Legendary Small Bites of Basque Country by Buckley, Marti
    Marti Buckley

    The Book of Pintxos: Discover the Legendary Small Bites of Basque Country

    For the first time ever, the recipes for pintxos--the small dishes found in bars in Basque Country--are gathered to present the definitive bible on this significant food of Basque culture, along with the history and people who created them, written by award-winning author Marti...
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  • Grist Mill Quick Loaf Breads by Mitchell, Patricia B.
    Patricia B. Mitchell

    Grist Mill Quick Loaf Breads

    Grist Mill Quick Loaf Breads is an excellent overview of milling history, the milling process, and health information about whole grains. The author, Patricia B. Mitchell, sings the praises of stone-ground whole grain flours, citing the fact that they have more flavor than "grocery...
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  • Eat Like a President: The White House Cookbook: Book Two by Zieman, Hugo
    Hugo Zieman

    Eat Like a President: The White House Cookbook: Book Two

    "Yes, it's a cookbook, but more than that it's a peak inside the dining room at the White House, showing us what US Presidents have for dinner." - Martha Griswold, Online Critics Corner (and self-described domestic goddess) Ever wonder what the President's having for...
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  • The Woman Suffrage Cookbook by Hilliard, Sean Robert
    Sean Robert Hilliard

    The Woman Suffrage Cookbook

    Originally compiled by Hattie A. Burr in 1886, the Woman Suffrage Cookbook is a collection of recipes pulled together from many eminent women of the time. The book is the first charity cookbook to have been published in support of the Women's Suffrage Movement...
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  • Hamburger Dreams: How Classic Crime Solving Techniques Helped Crack the Case of America's Greatest Culinary Mystery by Carosa, Christopher
    Christopher Carosa

    Hamburger Dreams: How Classic Crime Solving Techniques Helped Crack the Case of America's Greatest Culinary Mystery

    Who sold the first hamburger ever? Backed by more than 300 historical footnotes, this account of the birth of the burger takes you on a journey down a delicious rabbit hole where you'll discover the real hamburger history.It's the mystery behind something that has...
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  • Tales of the Table by Prichard, Simon J.
    Simon J. Prichard

    Tales of the Table

    Tales of the Table is a book for Foodies, a book for those of us with an 'ardent or refined interest in food and alcoholic beverages', a book that will take you on a delightful and entertaining tour of gastronomic and literary miscellany over...
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  • Eating Out in Europe: Picnics, Gourmet Dining and Snacks Since the Late Eighteenth Century by Jacobs, Marc
    Marc Jacobs

    Eating Out in Europe: Picnics, Gourmet Dining and Snacks Since the Late Eighteenth Century

    Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers - in cafs, pubs, brasseries and restaurants. Globalization brought about changes in patterns of leisure and consumption, as well as a democratization of restaurant culture. But what if we open up this concept of 'eating out' to...
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  • Edible Inventions: Cooking Hacks and Yummy Recipes You Can Build, Mix, Bake, and Grow by Ceceri, Kathy
    Kathy Ceceri

    Edible Inventions: Cooking Hacks and Yummy Recipes You Can Build, Mix, Bake, and Grow

    Believe it or not, there's a lot of inventing going on in the kitchen. Unless you only eat fruits and veggies right off the plant, you are using tools and techniques invented by humans to make food more tasty and easier to digest. When...
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  • United Tastes: The Making of the First American Cookbook by Stavely, Keith
    Keith Stavely

    United Tastes: The Making of the First American Cookbook

    Winner of the 2017 Bruce Fraser Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History The Library of Congress has designated American Cookery (1796) by Amelia Simmons one of the eighty-eight "Books That Shaped America." Its recognition as "the first American cookbook" has...
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  • Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour by Walsh, Robb
    Robb Walsh

    Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour

    A surprise-filled shellfish survey dishes up "ample oyster facts, figures and literary lore" (Publishers Weekly). When award-winning Texas food writer Robb Walsh discovers that the local Galveston Bay oysters are being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues in other parts of the country,...
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  • Ontario Garlic: The Story from Farm to Festival by McClusky, Peter
    Peter McClusky

    Ontario Garlic: The Story from Farm to Festival

    The taste of Ontario garlic is as rich and varied as its history. Used mainly for medicinal purposes in the nineteenth century, people turned up their noses at the aromatic bulb as it became associated with new immigrants. The once acceptable ingredient became undesirable...
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  • Billings Food: The Flavorful Story of Montana's Trailhead by Fong, Stella
    Stella Fong

    Billings Food: The Flavorful Story of Montana's Trailhead

    Billings' local food scene is bootstrapping and standing tall. Renowned restaurants like TEN boast menus that showcase distinctive local ingredients from trout roe to foraged mushrooms. Restaurants and artisans source from centuries-old establishments like the McGowan family farm, which provides grain to Trailhead Spirits...
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  • Homestead Aromas: Recipes and Stories from a Wyoming Homestead by Nicolaysen, Dorothy M.
    Dorothy M. Nicolaysen

    Homestead Aromas: Recipes and Stories from a Wyoming Homestead

    Take a step back in time to a simpler way of life -- life on the homestead during the Great Depression -- and get a delicious taste of real home cooking in Homestead Aromas, a collection of real-life tales and the culinary delights that...
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  • Canadians at Table: Food, Fellowship, and Folklore: A Culinary History of Canada by Duncan, Dorothy
    Dorothy Duncan

    Canadians at Table: Food, Fellowship, and Folklore: A Culinary History of Canada

    Canadians at Table is an introduction to the diverse culinary history of Canada. We learn about the lessons of survival of the First Nations, the foods that fuelled the fur traders, and the adaptability of the early settlers in their new environment. Here is...
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  • Baking Recipes & Home Remedies From the Time of the War For American Independence: A Unique Collection of Recpes & Remedies Used in the Homes of Signe by Pelton, Robert W.
    Robert W. Pelton

    Baking Recipes & Home Remedies From the Time of the War For American Independence: A Unique Collection of Recpes & Remedies Used in the Homes of Signe

    The Colonial homemaker had to dry her spices in front of the fireplace. They were then pounded until finely powdered and sifted.Raisins are an example of the amount of effort it took to properly prepare everything for baking. Raisins, almonds, pineapples and chocolate were...
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  • K'Oben: 3,000 Years of the Maya Hearth by O'Connor, Amber M.
    Amber M. O'Connor

    K'Oben: 3,000 Years of the Maya Hearth

    K'Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today's culinary tourism in the area. It focuses not only on what was eaten and how it was cooked, but...
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  • Prison Food in America by Camplin, Erika
    Erika Camplin

    Prison Food in America

    America seems presently fascinated by prison culture and the inner workings of what happens behind clinked doors. With TV shows creating binge-watchers of us all, and celebrities piquing public interest as they end up behind bars, Americans seem to enjoy a good gawk at...
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  • Food Cults: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet by Cargill, Kima
    Kima Cargill

    Food Cults: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet

    What do we mean when we call any group a cult? Definingthat term is a slippery proposition - the word cult is provocative and arguably pejorative. Does it necessarily refer to a religious group? A group with a charismatic leader? Or something darker and...
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  • The Golden Age Cookbook - 1898 Reprint by Dwight, Henrietta Latham
    Henrietta Latham Dwight

    The Golden Age Cookbook - 1898 Reprint

    Reprint of Henrietta Dwight's 1898 cookbook "The Golden Age Cook Book". This Historic Cookbook contains recipes for the "golden age" in which, she hopes, vegetarianism will take over the human diet. For more Historic Cookbooks and Vintage Bartender Books take a look at the...
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  • Farmhouse Fare by Various
    Various

    Farmhouse Fare

    "This book is made up entirely of recipes contributed and well-tried by countrywomen scattered over the length and breadth of the country. The dishes you will find here have not been concocted by experts with all the resources of a modern kitchen. They have...
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  • Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States by Wood, Kirsten E.
    Kirsten E. Wood

    Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States

    People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged...
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  • Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America by Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D.
    Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

    Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

    In this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout...
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  • Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice by Firth, Jeanne K.
    Jeanne K. Firth

    Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice

    After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many high-profile chefs in New Orleans pledged to help their city rebound from the flooding. Several formed their own charitable organizations, including the John Besh Foundation, to help revitalize the region and its restaurant scene. A year and a...
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  • The Cook's Book of Ponder: 18th century cooking by Coquu, Ex
    Ex Coquu

    The Cook's Book of Ponder: 18th century cooking

    The Cook, author of The Cook's Book of Ponder, has over 20 years of experience studying, reenacting, and teaching history from the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars while traveling throughout the Easter United States and Canada. He has been featured in several news...
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  • Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass by MacLean, Natalie
    Natalie MacLean

    Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

    Award-winning writer Natalie MacLean sweeps readers behind the scenes of the international wine world, visiting its most evocative places and meeting its most charismatic personalities. Red, White, and Drunk All Over showcases the engaging wit, investigative curiosity, and sharp eye for obsessive passion that...
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  • The History and Natural History of Spices: The 5000-Year Search for Flavour by Anderson, Ian
    Ian Anderson

    The History and Natural History of Spices: The 5000-Year Search for Flavour

    The dramatic search for spices through history, and how the pursuit of rare flavors changed and opened up our world Spices have been highly valued since at least the Bronze Age, with the so-called Spice Trade, spanning Asia to the Mediterranean, developing from the...
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  • Ohio Buckeye Candy: A Sweet History by Cook, Renee Casteel
    Renee Casteel Cook

    Ohio Buckeye Candy: A Sweet History

    Explore the history of Ohio's one-bite wonder! From humble origins, the buckeye has become Ohio's namesake candy. Though a classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter, each producer's offering is as bespoke as the buckeye is beloved. Taste tradition in Amish country at Coblentz...
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  • Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal by Viestad, Andreas
    Andreas Viestad

    Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal

    With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world--served one dish at a time. Now in paperback. "There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum," writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome....
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  • Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region by Pite, Rebekah E.
    Rebekah E. Pite

    Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region

    Drinking yerba mate is a daily, communal ritual that has brought together South Americans for some five centuries. In lively prose and with vivid illustrations, Rebekah E. Pite explores how this Indigenous infusion, made from the naturally caffeinated leaves of a local holly tree,...
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  • A Taste of Barcelona: The History of Catalan Cooking and Eating by Song, H. Rosi
    H. Rosi Song

    A Taste of Barcelona: The History of Catalan Cooking and Eating

    As a world destination for its history, culture and food, Barcelona occupies a special place for international visitors and food lovers. The book reveals the culinary history of the city of Barcelona and the region of Catalonia in Spain that narrates its rich gastronomic...
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  • Vintage Recipes of the 1980s: A Cookbook Representing the Gastronomic Trends of "The Eighties" by Masters, Steven
    Steven Masters

    Vintage Recipes of the 1980s: A Cookbook Representing the Gastronomic Trends of "The Eighties"

    Gastronomy of the 1980sAre you ready to embark on a culinary time machine back to the 1980s? Our new cookbook, "Vintage Recipes of the 1980s: A Cookbook Representing the Gastronomic Trends of 'The Eighties'" invites you to rediscover and relish the tastes that defined...
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  • Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States by Wood, Kirsten E.
    Kirsten E. Wood

    Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States

    People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged...
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  • Prohibition Cocktails: 21 Secrets & Recipes by Ward, Denitta
    Denitta Ward

    Prohibition Cocktails: 21 Secrets & Recipes

    Prohibition Cocktails reveals the history, secrets and recipes of 21 of the most popular drinks of the Roaring Twenties. From 1920-1933 the United States Constitution forbade the production, sale, and transport of intoxicating liquor and until repeal by the 21st Amendment - the rules...
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