(The following comments stem from a talk I gave to a group interested in the Peacock-Harper Culinary History collection at Virginia Tech.) A long time ago, while standing on the corner on a dusty street in Puebla, Mexico, I  experienced an epiphany. As I watched the housewives in rebozos (shawls) and young secretaries teetering on the cobblestones in their spike heels — like a thunderbolt the thought hit me: everything we do ultimately ties in with our need to eat. […]

Categories: American Cooking, Cookbooks • Tags: Amelia Simmons, Cookbooks, Cooking, Eliza Smith, Food, Hannah Glasse, Hannah Woolley, Susannah Carter, The Compleat Housewife, The Frugal Housewife