Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty

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Summary: A "must-have" especially for cookbook collectors
Review: Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty presents two cookbooks from eighteenth-century Virginia. One is an anonymous work dating from 1700; the other is the 1739-1743 cookbook of Jane Bolling Randolph, a desecendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. Editor and historical archaeology expert Katharine Harbury offers introductions and analyses of the cookbooks themselves, and links these enduring works to the 1824 classic "The Virginia House-wife" by Mary Randolph. A comprehensive and in-depth portrait that reveals much in the evolution of cookbooks and housekeeping instructionals, at once both nostalgic and containing a wealth of information that remains quite practical throughout the centuries. A "must-have" especially for cookbook collectors.