Cora S Country Cookbook

The cream of South American and Latin American dishes, from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego, make this book an introduction to zestful dining. Cora, Rose, and Bob Brown have spent years in Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean learning the native cooking; they have absorbed lore about the strange roots and vegetables which flavor some of the dishes; and particularly they have learned how to substitute traditional garden vegetables for the exotic tropical fruits and vegetables not available in their home country. Cora Brown, her son Robert, and her daughter-in-law Rose authored and published eleven cookbooks.

Home cooks and gourmets, chefs and restaurateurs, epicures, and simple food lovers of all stripes will delight in this smorgasbord of the history and culture of food and drink. Professor of Culinary History Andrew Smith and nearly 200 authors bring together in 770 entries the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline and funeral food to fad diets and fast food; drinks like lemonade, Kool-Aid, and Tang; foodstuffs like Jell-O, Twinkies, and Spam; and Dagwood, hoagie, and Sloppy Joe sandwiches.

Like fashions and fads, food-even bad food-has a history, and Lovegren's Fashionable Food is quite literally a cookbook of the American past. Well researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour of a hungry American century.