Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Catalog of Broadsides in the Rare Book Division: Author
Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Compleat Housewife
Author: Eliza SmithPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449428258
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742. Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions—the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes “the ingredients or material for which are not to be had in this country,” but for the most part, the book was not adjusted to American kitchens. Even so, it became the first cookery best seller in the New World, and Parks’s major book publication. Author Eliza Smith described her book on the title page as “Being a collection of several hundred approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionery, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added, a collection of nearly two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, etc. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours.” The recipes are easy to understand and cover everything from 50 recipes for pickling everything from nasturtium buds to pigeons to “lifting a swan, breaking a deer, and splating a pike,” indicating the importance of understanding how to prepare English game. The book also includes diagrams for positioning serving dishes to create an attractive table display.
Catalog of Broadsides in the Rare Book Division: Chronological catalog
Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
Author: United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Going to the Territory
Author: Ralph EllisonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797384
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life." -- Washington Post Book World The seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides us with dramatically fresh readings of William Faulkner and Richard Wright, along with new perspectives on the music of Duke Ellington and the art of Romare Bearden. He analyzes the subversive quality of black laughter, the mythic underpinnings of his masterpiece Invisible Man, and the extent to which America's national identity rests on the contributions of African Americans. Erudite, humane, and resounding with humor and common sense, the result is essential Ellison.
My Cookery Books
Author: Elizabeth Robins PennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Library of Congress Main Reading Room Reference Collection Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressShadows of Voices
Author: Dennis McCalibThe Letters of Centinel
Author: Samuel BryanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781892355010
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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