The New Settlement Cookbook

Back-to-basics book, filled with hundreds of hearty, simple recipes -- everything from griddle cakes, shrimp Creole and mulligatawny soup to cheese fondue, oyster a la poulette, and a variety of ethnic dishes.

"The New Settlement Cookbook" updates the "heirloom" recipes used by our mothers and grandmothers since the original was first published in 1901. New recipes reflecting contemporary American tastes have been added to the traditional ones to make this book every cook's kitchen bible. Dozens of basic cooking techniques are explained and illustrated. Recipe variations follow with suggestions to make the cooking process quicker and easier using the microwave, food processor and other modern kitchen equipment.

Published in 1903, this was the original "way to a manis heart," featuring authentic American recipes, European cooking, and Jewish favorites. It was put together by the cooking students at the Milwaukee Settlement House and was an important staple of the American kitchen for more than fifty years.

An original and eclectic view of cookbooks as political acts Cookbooks are not political in conventional ways. They neither proclaim, as do manifestos, nor do they forbid, as do laws. They do not command agreement, as do arguments, and their stipulations often lack specificity — cook "until browned." Yet, as repositories of human taste, cookbooks transmit specific blends of flavor, texture, and nutrition across space and time. Cookbooks both form and reflect who we are. In Cookbook Politics, Kennan Ferguson explores the sensual and political implications of these repositories, demonstrating how they create nations, establish ideologies, shape international relations, and structure communities. Cookbook Politics argues that cookbooks highlight aspects of our lives we rarely recognize as political—taste, production, domesticity, collectivity, and imagination—and considers the ways in which cookbooks have or do politics, from the most overt to the most subtle. Cookbooks turn regional diversity into national unity, as Pellegrino Artusi's Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well did for Italy in 1891. Politically affiliated organizations compile and sell cookbooks—for example, the early United Nations published The World's Favorite Recipes. From the First Baptist Church of Midland, Tennessee's community cookbook, to Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, to the Italian Futurists' proto-fascist guide to food preparation, Ferguson demonstrates how cookbooks mark desires and reveal social commitments: your table becomes a representation of who you are. Authoritative, yet flexible; collective, yet individualized; cooperative, yet personal—cookbooks invite participation, editing, and transformation. Created to convey flavor and taste across generations, communities, and nations, they enact the continuities and changes of social lives. Their functioning in the name of creativity and preparation—with readers happily consuming them in similar ways—makes cookbooks an exemplary model for democratic politics.

First published 1896. Frequently revised.

From the creator of the beloved and award-winning Love and Lemons blog comes an apple-to-zucchini celebration of impromptu cooking, featuring 100 all-new vegetarian recipes with gorgeous color photography and design The Love and Lemons blog has taken the internet foodie world by storm with its standout design and delicious recipes, attracting buzz from everyone from Ottolenghi to Saveur. Now, in her highly anticipated debut cookbook, Jeanine Donofrio celebrates seasonal and impromptu cooking with 100 all-new delicious vegetarian recipes. Donofrio's cooking philosophy is that simple combinations can make exceptionally delicious meals that are easy to put together. Organized by ingredient, The Love and Lemons Cookbook will teach you to make masterpieces with what you have on hand, whether it's three armfuls of farmers' market arugula or two pounds of CSA radishes. With vibrant, fresh food photography, artful graphic elements, and exceptionally stylish layouts, The Love and Lemons Cookbook caters to today's image-orientated readers. Stunningly designed and efficiently organized, this will be both a beautiful book and a workhorse kitchen bible that you'll find yourself using again and again.

From the earliest days of European settlement in the South, as in many rural economies around the globe, cured pork became a main source of sustenance, and the cheaper, lower-on-the-hog cuts--notably, bacon--became some of the most important traditional southern foodstuffs. In this cookbook, Fred Thompson captures a humble ingredient's regional culinary history and outsized contributions to the table. Delicious, of course, straight out of the skillet, bacon is also special in its ability to lend a unique savory smokiness to an enormous range of other foods. Today, for regular eaters and high-flying southern chefs alike, bacon has achieved a culinary profile so popular as to approach baconmania. But Thompson sagely notes that bacon will survive the silliness. Describing the many kinds of bacon that are available, Thompson provides key choices for cooking and seasoning appropriately. The book's fifty-six recipes invariably highlight and maximize that beloved bacon factor, so appreciated throughout the South and beyond (by Thompson's count, fifty different styles of bacon exist worldwide). Dishes range from southern regional to international, from appetizers to main courses, and even to a very southern beverage. Also included are Thompson's do-it-yourself recipes for making bacon from fresh pork belly in five different styles.