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The taste of country cooking / Edna Lewis.

By: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Thirtieth anniversary editionDescription: xxi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307265609
  • 0307265609
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TX715 .L495 2006
Contents:
Foreword / by Alice Waters -- Preface / by Judith Jones -- Introduction -- Spring. Introduction ; An early spring dinner after sheep-shearing ; A spring breakfast when the shad were running ; A late spring lunch after wild-mushroom picking ; A late spring dinner with spring-hatched chicken ; A hearty midday dinner -- Summer. Introduction ; A creamed ham and sweet potato breakfast ; An early summer lunch of the season's delicacies ; An early summer dinner of veal, scallions, and the first berries ; A prepared-ahead summer dinner ; Midsummer Sunday breakfast ; A busy-day summer dinner ; Putting up fruits and vegetables, pickles, and wine ; Wheat-harvesting midday dinner ; Making ice cream on a summer afternoon ; Sunday revival dinner ; A cool-evening supper ; The night for a boiled Virginia ham dinner -- Fall. Introduction ; Breakfast before leaving for race day ; Race day picnic ; Making wine, persimmon beer, and a fall preserve ; Emancipation Day dinner ; Fall breakfast before a day of hunting ; Hunting season dinner ; Morning-after-hog-butchering breakfast ; Preparations for Christmas -- Winter. Introduction ; Christmas Eve supper ; Christmas breakfast ; Christmas dinner ; A snowy winter breakfast ; A dinner celebrating the last of the barnyard fowl ; A dinner from the leg of beef ; A bean supper ; A dinner of chicken and dumplings and warm gingerbread -- A note on baking powder -- A Note on herbs to grow on the windowsill.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks TX715 .L495 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 06/17/2024 33039001486314

Originally published May 28, 1976.

"This is a Borzoi book ... Portions of the Spring section appeared in the May 1976 issue of Gourmet"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Foreword / by Alice Waters -- Preface / by Judith Jones -- Introduction -- Spring. Introduction ; An early spring dinner after sheep-shearing ; A spring breakfast when the shad were running ; A late spring lunch after wild-mushroom picking ; A late spring dinner with spring-hatched chicken ; A hearty midday dinner -- Summer. Introduction ; A creamed ham and sweet potato breakfast ; An early summer lunch of the season's delicacies ; An early summer dinner of veal, scallions, and the first berries ; A prepared-ahead summer dinner ; Midsummer Sunday breakfast ; A busy-day summer dinner ; Putting up fruits and vegetables, pickles, and wine ; Wheat-harvesting midday dinner ; Making ice cream on a summer afternoon ; Sunday revival dinner ; A cool-evening supper ; The night for a boiled Virginia ham dinner -- Fall. Introduction ; Breakfast before leaving for race day ; Race day picnic ; Making wine, persimmon beer, and a fall preserve ; Emancipation Day dinner ; Fall breakfast before a day of hunting ; Hunting season dinner ; Morning-after-hog-butchering breakfast ; Preparations for Christmas -- Winter. Introduction ; Christmas Eve supper ; Christmas breakfast ; Christmas dinner ; A snowy winter breakfast ; A dinner celebrating the last of the barnyard fowl ; A dinner from the leg of beef ; A bean supper ; A dinner of chicken and dumplings and warm gingerbread -- A note on baking powder -- A Note on herbs to grow on the windowsill.

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