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From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals Paperback - 2003
by Haber, Barbara
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Culinary historian Barbara Haber takes a unique approach to the history of cooking in America, focusing on a remarkable assembly of little-known or forgotten Americans who helped shape the eating habits of the nation. As Curator of Books at Harvard University's Schlesinger Library, Haber has access to more than 16,000 cookbooks from which she has drawn inspiring and often surprising cooking stories from the 1840s to the present
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- Title From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
- Author Haber, Barbara
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0142002976
- ISBN 9780142002971 / 0142002976
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.08 x 0.49 in (20.62 x 12.90 x 1.24 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Food habits - United States - History, Diet - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001058482
- Dewey Decimal Code 394
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The first object I beheld at the foot of a hill at sunset, when I had gained the road, was an old woman with a sack of potatoes on her back, suspended by a rope across her forehead.