Pennsylvania Trail Of History Cookbook

A colorfully illustrated cookbook of recipes from Pennsylvania history.

What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.

More than 200 recipes from the leading museum on Pennsylvania Dutch culture Convenient lay-flat spiral binding Historic background of food and foodways The culture of the Pennsylvania Dutch is preserved at Landis Valley Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This volume produced in association with the museum presents food and foodways essential to seasonal events and holidays of the calendar year, from New Year's Day to Christmas, barn raisings to quilting bees. More than 200 recipes are offered, both traditional and modern, including such favorites as chicken corn soup, onion bread, Fastnachts, shoofly pie, pepper cabbage, red beet eggs, apple butter, corn fritters, Lebkuche, funnel cake, clear toy candy, bellyguts, soft pretzels, scrapple, sausage, pig stomach, roasted ham, chicken pot pie, pork and sauerkraut, fried rabbit, dandelion wine, and cherry bounce.

This multicultural and interdisciplinary reference brings a fresh social and cultural perspective to the global history of food, foodstuffs, and cultural exchange from the age of discovery to contemporary times. Comprehensive in scope, this two-volume encyclopedia covers agriculture and industry, food preparation and regional cuisines, science and technology, nutrition and health, and trade and commerce, as well as key contemporary issues such as famine relief, farm subsidies, food safety, and the organic movement. Articles also include specific foodstuffs such as chocolate, potatoes, and tomatoes; topics such as Mediterranean diet and the Spice Route; and pivotal figures such as Marco Polo, Columbus, and Catherine de' Medici. Special features include: dozens of recipes representing different historic periods and cuisines of the world; listing of herbal foods and uses; and a chronology of key events/people in food history.

This cookbook and travel guide includes 116 restaurants of significant historical interest in Pennsylvania. Some of these are inns, taverns, and roadside hostelries have been in business for many years at the same site. Others -- former schoolhouses, barns, and train stations among them -- have been converted from other uses but still retain their original flavor. The restaurants are grouped by theme -- those located on the waterfront, those that were stops on the Underground Railroad, those frequented by famous people, and those haunted by a ghostly presence, to name a few. The book includes two or three recipes from each restaurant, so readers can reproduce their favorite dishes. Illustrations.