Dining With The Washingtons

Author : Stephen Archie McLeod
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807835269
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dining with the Washingtons written by Stephen Archie McLeod and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining vivid photography with engaging essays, Dining with the Washingtons explores the menus, diet, and styles of entertaining that characterized the beloved home of the nation's principal founding father. Compelling accounts, historic artwork, and images of gardens, table settings, prepared food, and objects from the Mount Vernon collection blend to shed fresh light on the daily lives of George and Martha Washington, on their ceaseless stream of household guests and those who served them, and on the ways food and drink reflected the culture of eighteenth-century America. Featuring a foreword by former White House executive chef Walter Scheib and more than 90 historic recipes adapted for today's kitchens by renowned culinary historian Nancy Carter Crump, this book is ideal for veteran and novice cooks alike as well as for those wishing to learn about both formal and everyday dining at Mount Vernon. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including memoirs, diaries, plantation documents, archaeological research, and the personal correspondence of the Washington family and their visitors, this charming volume brings the household of America's first president and his wife vividly to life for modern-day readers. The contributors are: Steven T. Bashore, Manager of Historic Trades, Mount Vernon Carol Borchert Cadou, Robert H. Smith Senior Curator and Vice President for Collections, Mount Vernon Nancy Carter Crump, author and founder, Culinary Historians of Virginia J. Dean Norton, Director of Horticulture, Mount Vernon Dennis J. Pogue, Vice President of Preservation, Mount Vernon Walter Scheib, former executive chef, The White House Mary V. Thompson, Research Historian, Mount Vernon Esther White, Director of Archaeology, Mount Vernon

Author : Carol Borchert Cadou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931917448
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dining with the Washingtons written by Carol Borchert Cadou and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Combining vivid photography with engaging essays, Dining with the Washingtons explores the menus, diet, and styles of entertaining that characterized the beloved home of the nation's principal founding father."--Amazon.com.

Author : Karen Hess
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231049313
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats written by Karen Hess and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the family cookbook Martha Washington kept and used for fifty years, with over five hundred classic recipes dating largely from Elizabethan and Jacobean times, the golden age of English cookery.

Author : Mount Vernon Ladies Association
Publisher : Wimmer Cookbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780931917134
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mount Vernon Cookbook written by Mount Vernon Ladies Association and published by Wimmer Cookbooks. This book was released on 1987 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year-round gift of 400 tested recipes introducing 18th-century lifestyles and glimpses into the way George Washington lived and entertained. Benefits historical preservation.

Author : Adrian Miller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632543
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The President's Kitchen Cabinet written by Adrian Miller and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work—Non Fiction James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable roles in unforgettable events in the nation's history. Daisy McAfee Bonner, for example, FDR's cook at his Warm Springs retreat, described the president's final day on earth in 1945, when he was struck down just as his lunchtime cheese souffle emerged from the oven. Sorrowfully, but with a cook's pride, she recalled, "He never ate that souffle, but it never fell until the minute he died." A treasury of information about cooking techniques and equipment, the book includes twenty recipes for which black chefs were celebrated. From Samuel Fraunces's "onions done in the Brazilian way" for George Washington to Zephyr Wright's popovers, beloved by LBJ's family, Miller highlights African Americans' contributions to our shared American foodways. Surveying the labor of enslaved people during the antebellum period and the gradual opening of employment after Emancipation, Miller highlights how food-related work slowly became professionalized and the important part African Americans played in that process. His chronicle of the daily table in the White House proclaims a fascinating new American story.

Author : George Washington
Publisher : Bnpublishing.Com
ISBN 13 : 9789562911771
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation written by George Washington and published by Bnpublishing.Com. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Rose
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 055339259X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington's Spies written by Alexander Rose and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all. In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy’s battle plans and military strategy. Washington’s small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’ t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception—and proved an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells the unknown story of the Revolution–the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in the history books. But Washington’s Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.

Author : Armand Eisen
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780836230215
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery written by Armand Eisen and published by Andrews McMeel Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret McNamara
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0375844996
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington's Birthday written by Margaret McNamara and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect picture book biography from award-winning author Margaret McNamara and New Yorker artist Barry Blitt comes this partly true and completely funny story of George Washington's 7th birthday. In this clever approach to history, readers will discover the truths and myths about George Washington. Did George Washington wear a wig? No. Did George Washington cut down a cherry tree? Probably not. Readers young and old who are used to seeing George Washington as an old man, will get a new look at the first president—as a kid. Perfect for classrooms, Presidents' Day, or as a birthday gift.

Author : Damon Lee Fowler
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9781882886258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dining at Monticello written by Damon Lee Fowler and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipes, background essays, anecdotes, and lush illustrations provide an inviting view of the renowned hospitality offered at Thomas Jefferson's table at Monticello.