Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Kentucky Housewife or Mennonite Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley

Kentucky Housewife: Containing Nearly Thirteen Hundred Full Receipts

Author: Lettice Bryan

Originally published in 1839, this long-lost classic of Southern cooking includes more than 1,300 recipes, all cooked and seasoned in a hot climate. The foods and recipes featured in this kitchen classic are derived from American Indian, European, and African sources and reflect a merging of the three distinct cultures in the American South.



Book about: Clarke Spurriers Fine Wine Guide or In 60 Ways

Mennonite Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley

Author: Phyllis Pellman Good

Known for its piercing mountain ranges, its soft hilly pastures, and its Civil War secrets, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is also home to thousands of Mennonites. Their foods are as lush and as whole as the land on which it is grown and prepared. Here are hundreds of those uncommonly tasty recipes, gathered from a comforting food tradition, rooted in the old South. Included are color photographs of the community and its people, and historic sketches of many of the Valley's small towns.



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