The Way We Ate
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The Way We Ate by Jacqueline Williams
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 stores and inadequate housing to one with business establishments bursting with goods and homes decorated with the latest finery.Like she did in her earlier acclaimed volume, Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail, Williams has in her latest book shed important new light on a little-understood aspect of our past. These tales of a pioneer wife bemoaning her husband's gift of a cookbook when she really needed more food, or preparing sweets and savories for holiday celebrations when the kitchen was just a tiny space in a one-room log cabin, show another side of the grim-faced pioneers portrayed in movies. Here we encounter real American history and culture, one that vividly portrays the daily lives of the people who won the West--not in Hollywood gun battles, but in the kitchens and fields of a world that has disappeared. Interlacing a lively narrative with the pioneers' own words, The Way We Ate is truly a feast for those who believe that "much depends on dinner.
Jacqueline Williams researches and writes about the daily life of those who traveled the Oregon Trail and settled in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail and co-author of the cookbooks, No Salt, No Sugar, No Fat; Hold the Fat, Sugar, and Salt; and Lowfat American Favorites. Williams lives in Seattle where she collects early Pacific Northwest cookbooks.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780874221367 |
| ISBN 10 | 0874221366 |
| Title | The Way We Ate |
| Author | Jacqueline Williams |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Washington State University Press |
| Year published | 1996-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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