Description:
Food historian Jacqueline B. Williams describes cooking and dining practices from the earliest years of settlement to the time when railroads transported the latest ingredients and utensils, shedding significant light on a mundane aspect of our past.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"An extraordinary adventure in learning how settlements were transformed not only by human ingenuity and industry, but by adventure, manufacture, and transportation."
--Western Historical Quarterly