Download Free The Mind Of The Old South With Plates Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online The Mind Of The Old South With Plates and write the review.

Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia's Eastern Shore is a distinctly southern place with an exceptionally southern taste. In this inviting narrative, Bernard L. Herman welcomes readers into the communities, stories, and flavors that season a land where the distance from tide to tide is often less than five miles. Blending personal observation, history, memories of harvests and feasts, and recipes, Herman tells of life along the Eastern Shore through the eyes of its growers, watermen, oyster and clam farmers, foragers, church cooks, restaurant owners, and everyday residents. Four centuries of encounter, imagination, and invention continue to shape the foodways of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, melding influences from Indigenous peoples, European migrants, enslaved and free West Africans, and more recent newcomers. Herman reveals how local ingredients and the cooks who have prepared them for the table have developed a distinctly American terroir--the flavors of a place experienced through its culinary and storytelling traditions. This terroir flourishes even as it confronts challenges from climate change, declining fish populations, and farming monoculture. Herman reveals this resilience through the recipes and celebrations that hold meaning, not just for those who live there but for all those folks who sit at their tables--and other tables near and far.
This is a romantic look back at southern foods and food ways.Typical of many other such books following the Civil War, there is a touching, nostalgic (condescending) evocation of the author's Mammy and her cooking.We find an underlying love and admiration for the Mammy and a feeling of loss for the "good old days."One can learn a great deal about an antebellum Southern kitchen.Every chapter contains good, solid Southern recipes. Many pages are requiredto discuss all the variations on the theme of the pig and pork: how to select,cure, pickle, make hams, hang hams, smoke, Render Lard, Prepare Fried Hog'sFeet, Souse and Hog's Foot Oil and Jelly. We also have Barbecued Rabbit,Squirrel Smothered, Possum Roasted, Fried Chicken, Fig Pudding, Fried Pies,Sweet Potato Custard, Molasses Pie, Blackberry Mush, and Baked Peaches.There are sections on Creole Cookery, and fascinating discussions on thefoods and festivities associated with special occassions.
"A former slave, Mrs Fisher came from Mobile, Alabama and began cooking for San Francisco society in the late 1870's"--Back cover.
Their songs insist that the arrival of the railroad and the appearance of the tiny depot often created such hope that it inspired the construction of the architectural extravaganzas that were the courthouses of the era. In these buildings the distorted myth of the Old South collided head-on with the equally deformed myth of the New South."