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Nothing More Comforting
Starting with ingredients
Consider the fork
Cheese and culture
The Victorian cookbook
Food on the page
The Civil War cookbook
Moveable Feasts
A history of food in 100 recipes
A literary feast
Consuming Passions
The taste of America
All manners of food
From hardtack to home fries
The modern savage
The art of cookery in the Middle Ages
Dining in America, 1850-1900
The unofficial Mad men cookbook
Food and recipes of the Native Americans
The art of cookery made plain and easy
Rare bits
The Frugal gourmet on our immigrant ancestors
Pasta
Sweet invention
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
British Food
The Audacity of Hops
Hog and hominy
Savoring America
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