Food in the Civil War era : : the South.

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Almost immediately, the Civil War transformed the way Southerners ate, devastating fields and food transportation networks. The war also spurred Southerners to canonize prewar cooking styles, resulting in cuisine that retained nineteenth-century techniques in a way other American cuisines did not. This fascinating book presents a variety of Civil War-era recipes from the South, accompanied by eye-opening essays describing this tumultuous period in the way people lived and ate. The cookbooks excerpted here teem with the kinds of recipes we expect to find when we go looking for Southern food.

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A Great Peak into History submitted by seadocks on July 24, 2015, 1:38pm I really like the books in this series. This goes well with the book that features the north. Together you can get an idea of the differences in the cuisines between the two areas of the country. While this doesn't explain the civil war itself, it does show other ways there were differences between the groups at conflict with each other. The companion books are a must for anyone that finds this book and its sister book remotely interesting. The companion books are just short 30 page books of recipes that have been changed so that they can be made in a modern kitchen and they are a good way to create an interactive educational experience for your kids if you want to have them study the civil war period in history.