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Feasting and Fasting with Lewis Clark: A Food and Social History of the Early 1800s
Feasting and Fasting with Lewis Clark A Food and Social History of the Early 1800s Author:Leandra Zim Holland Food historian Leandra Zim Holland presents the most complete coverage of what the Lewis & Clark Expedition lived on during 1803-06: fresh bison on the High Plains, dried salmon in the Columbia River country, dog and horse when necessary, vegetables offered by Indian hosts and harvested by Sacagawea, portable soup from Philadelphia, and salt por... more »k from St. Louis. Extensive quotations from the Expedition journals and Hollands fascinating narrative about the foods, hunting, cooking and native relations along the Trail make this book a rich treat for all readers as well as a solid reference for historians, researchers, and re-enactors. Beginning in the Presidents House with Thomas Jefferson, the author establishes foods cultural context in the early 1800s from fine urban dining to the make-do of the frontier. On the trail, it covers banquets served by Indian tribes, foods role in frontier diplomacy and trade, and regular daily fare (or lack thereof). It is a full-color book on quality matte-gloss paper with extensive illustrations, maps, and a sprinkling of recipes to help trace daily life, food preparation, preservation and storage methods. A detailed index; separate recipe and menu index; item-by-item food group reference appendices; extensive bibliography and separate listings of additional resources, web-sites, and where-to-find-it listings; and extensive reference notes assist both the casual reader and Expedition scholars. In both hard-bound and soft-cover editions, both have the same quality-sewn-binding; and the soft-cover flaps contain the material on the hard-cover dust jacket.« less