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Book Review of From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals

From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
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Interesting, but a bit biased - makes you want to read the other side of some of these commentaries. The Essays: The Irish Famine and America; Civil War Nurses and Diet Kitchens; America's Food REformers; The Harvey Girls; Home Cooking in the FDR White House; POWs During WWII; Jewish Refugees Find Friends and Work; African-American Cooks; What Cookbooks Mean.