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From Hardtack to Homefries: an Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals.
Haber, Barbara. From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals. Apr. 2002, 288p. illus. index. Free Press, $25 (0-684-84217-3). 394.1.
Haber's wonderfully readable, intelligent, and eclectic history of cooking in America sheds new light on women's achievements and relates stories sure to delight. Haber begins with the remarkable tale of Asenath Hatch Nicholson, an American Protestant missionary who went to Ireland at the height of the potato famine to distribute Bibles. Becoming an outspoken defender of oppressed Irish Catholics, she taught starving folk to cook properly and appetizingly unfamiliar ...
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