Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry: Missouri's Cookbook Heritage
Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry, a treasure trove of anecdotes and nuggets of historical information about cookery in the Show-Me State, draws from more than 150 publications to reveal Missouri's cookbook heritage and to deliver a generous sampling of recipes. Along the way, it dishes out servings of kitchen medicine, household hints, and cookbook literature gleaned from the state's cache of culinary gems.\ From handwritten family recipe collections and mimeographed publications...
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This treasure trove of anecdotes and nuggets of historical information about cookery in the Show-Me State draws from more than 150 publications to reveal Missouri's cookbook heritage and to deliver a generous sampling of recipes. The Fishers scoured libraries and historical societies to find handwritten family recipe collections and mimeographed publications as well as glossy color editions. Cookbooks covered include such curiosities as the Julia Clark Household Memoranda Book from the William Clark papers, an 1880 production by the Ladies of St. Louis called My Mother's Cookbook, Mary Foote Henderson's Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving, and Albert E. Brumley's All-Day Singin' and Dinner on the Ground. Festival cookbooks, company cookbooks, even cookbooks tied to world events—they're all here in one delightful book and its extensive bibliography.
Introduction 1Cookbooks Come to Missouri 3A Taste of Nineteenth-Century Publications 11Community Cookbooks 28A Serving of Ethnic Cookbooks 52Missouri Cookbooks Record History 65Individually Authored and Edited Cookbooks 88Producer and Festival Cookbooks 105Company/Product Cookbooks 119Cookbooks from Restaurants Past and Present 140World Events and Politics in Missouri Cookbooks 153Kitchen Medicine, Housekeeping Tips, and Cookbook Literature 165A Final Perspective 180Selected Recipes 183Notes 197Bibliography 209Index 225
