Hunger is the Best Sauce
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem …
Category Archives: Bibliographies
Ghosts of Gourmet: Ann Seranne
About three days ago, caught in the throes of egg cookery, I realized that Ann Seranne’s name doesn’t ring a …
A Honey of a Bibliography
Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. ~~Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees Here are some of the many resources I’ve relied …
Coming Up: New Food Memoirs & Other Treats
Food memoirs form just one of many research items on the list of materials used by culinary historians. In rounding …
Old Cookbooks Online — Some New Goodies
165 of Virginia Tech’s Newman Library’s collection of thousands of rare and antique cookbooks just went digital. Most of the …
The Random Herbalist: Books About Monastic and Medieval Gardens
I find the following books enlightening, soothing, and motivating. My plan is to create/design a medieval/monastic herb garden over the …
Reveling in Books: DIY (Old) Food, Knowledge Lost and Now Found
Want to make your own cheese? How about pickles or chow-chow? Sausage and headcheese? Raise a couple of cows or …
American Cookbooks: History 101 (II)
Continued from April 28, 2009: By the 1820s other cookbooks followed, The Virginia Housewife among them, written by Mary Randolph, …
“The White (Wo)Man’s Burden”: Household Management in the Colonies (With Bibliography)
European women who lived in nineteenth- and twentieth-century foreign outposts sought authoritative voices to guide them through the challenges of …
First You Settle the Pampas: Food in Colonial Argentina and Today (Conclusion)
Throughout the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, the Roman Catholic Church proselytized the vast distances and founded convents. And …
