The Way We Ate: Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900

Probing diaries, letters, business journals, and newspapers for morsels of information, food historian Jackie Williams here follows pioneers from the earliest years of settlement in the Northwest—when smoldering logs in a fireplace stood in for a stove, and water had to be hauled from a stream or well—to the times when railroads brought Pacific Northwest cooks the latest ingredients and implements. The fifty-year journey described in The Way We Ate documents a change from a land with few st...