Our Founding Foods

by Jane Tennant, S.G.B. Tennant Jr., Jr. Tennant, et al.

Book Overview

American cuisine has absorbed the best and brightest of every culture world wide, and it all began in the early cookbooks of the eighteenth century. Martha Washington, for instance, our first First Lady, was America's earliest celebrity chef. Her recipe collection was a beloved family heirloom, lent out to friends one "receipt" at a time. Others followed. In the South, Thomas Jefferson's cousin, Mary Randolph, wrote a bestselling cookbook many of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595435913
• ISBN13: 9781595435910
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Willow Creek Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"