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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 Lady, was America’s earliest… More >>
Our Founding Foods
Written by admin on September 4th, 2010 in Cooking, Food & Wine.
Tags: Foods, Founding
Our Founding Foods: Classics From the First Century of American Celebrity Cookbooks is a vintage collection of select recipes from eighteenth-century American cookbooks, from recipes collected by Martha Washington (America’s first celebrity chef) to choices from Thomas Jefferson’s cousin Mary Randolph (many of whose recipes are still used today) to the Thanksgiving traditional fare propagated by enterprising New Yorker Amelia Simmons. Collecting over 200 recipes out of the very best cookbooks created during the first 100 years of America’s culinary history, Our Founding Foods is a much-deserved addition to American cookbook shelves.
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