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A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray

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Availability:In StockContributor:William C. DavisPublish date:2011-05-01Pages:258
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803235229ISBN-10:803235224UPC:9780803235229Book Category:History, CookingBook Subcategory:United States, HistoryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:8.97 x 6.06 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SC4RK9ZH8D

A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray

For soldiers in all wars, mealtime is a focal point of the day. Armies do indeed "march on their stomachs," as Napoleon said. Soldiers of the Civil War armies, many away from home and mothers' and wives' cooking for the first time, were thrown back on their own resources both to prepare their own meals and often to stock their larders. No one in America, North or South, was prepared for the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803235229ISBN-10:803235224UPC:9780803235229Book Category:History, CookingBook Subcategory:United States, HistoryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:8.97 x 6.06 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SC4RK9ZH8D
William C. Davis is a professor of history and the director of programs of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. Three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award, Davis is the author of more than forty books on Civil War and Southern history, including Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America.
Publisher: Bison Books

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