America's Collectible Cookbooks: The History, The Politics, The Recipes

America’s Collectible Cookbooks is a wonderful concoction of gossipy morsels and serious reflection about cookbooks and cookbook authors. Although the names Fannie Merritt Farmer, Eliza Leslie, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Irma Rombauer are familiar to generations of American books, few know how really extraordinary these women were. In Mary Anna DuSablon’s look at the two hundred-year evolution of American cookbooks, these authors receive their due—not simply as recipe peddlers, but as shapers ...