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The Carolina Housewife

✍️ Rutledge, Sarah
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🏛 University of South Carolina Press 📅 1979 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780872493834

📝 Description: The Carolina Housewife

This "incomparable guide to Southern cuisine", according to Time magazine, includes a preliminary check list of the cookbooks of South Carolina which were published before 1935. A facsimile of the 1847 edition.

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This book is strictly for the academic or deeply curious enthusiast, not the casual home cook seeking quick meals. Its value lies entirely in its historical documentation and the included checklist of pre-1935 texts. Modern readers expecting contemporary nutritional advice or easy-to-follow instructions will find it lacking. It is a niche artifact, best judged by its place on the regional cooking shelf as a reference work rather than a practical guide for today's kitchen.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

This book is strictly for the academic or deeply curious enthusiast, not the casual home cook seeking quick meals. Its value lies entirely in its historical documentation and the included checklist of pre-1935 texts. Modern readers expecting contemporary nutritional advice or easy-to-follow instructions will find it lacking. It is a niche artifact, best judged by its place on the regional cooking shelf as a reference work rather than a practical guide for today's kitchen.

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