Civil War Recipes: Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book

Godey's Lady's Book, perhaps the most popular magazine for women in nineteenth-century America, had a national circulation of 150,000 during the 1860s. The recipes (spelled "receipts") it published were often submitted by women from both the North and the South, and they reveal the wide variety of regional cooking that characterized American culture. There is a remarkable diversity in the recipes, thanks to the largely rural readership of Godey's Lady's Book and to the immigrant influence on th

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 02/10/1999
ISBN: 9780813120829
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 07/01/1999 pg. 118