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Title: The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery by Eliot Wigginton, Linda Garland Page ISBN: 0-517-21813-5 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Sad Disappointment
Comment: I am a serious cook with a large cookbook library. I am a Southerner who made my first biscuits and gravy at age 5. This book is a not-so-well done re-hash of other Foxfires and sorely disappointing. It is difficult to use as a cookbook-more poignant than useful. Also a tad light on recipes. A much better book from North Georgia (Southern Appalachia, like the Foxfire series) is Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking. I use this one a lot, enjoy reading the stories, and frequently give it as gift to visiting Yankees. Plus it has the wit, charm, and authenticity so sadly missing from the Foxfire Cookbook.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book I use a lot
Comment: Got this as a gift and what a treat it is proving to be. It is a book that is really helping me broaden my homesteading skills and I adore the running dialogue and photographs that show the how to's and bring back wonderful memories of growing up.
The recipes are good and easy and delicious and I like the discussion of how to dress out livestock and wild game as well as how to make crock pickles and things like sauerkraut which I love doing. I also like, but some people may be turned off by the meat section that deals with waste not want not, and how to make use of most of the animal one slaughters. Something my family knew well when I was growing up.
This is also a good book is someone simply wants to learn about how self sufficiency works and how most people used to live, especially in rural areas.
It is my favorite and most usable of all the Foxfire books.
Rating: 5
Summary: History and Cooking: My Two Favorites Together!
Comment: I have bought many, many cookbooks not for cooking, but for reading. My favorite format in cookbooks are those where text is woven with recipes; it 'fleshes out' the recipes.
Anyone who has derived pleasure from reading the Foxfire series over the years will also want to buy this one. It follows the general Foxfire format, specialized for cooking. It will be of particular value for those young people interested in cooking. As becomes apparent, cooking in this country used to be quite different from what we consider it now. For most Americans, by the end of WW II kitchens had been transformed by the addition of running water and gas/electric powered appliances. My grandparents didn't get electricity in their rural location until 1948. Before then, there was a kerosene-powered refrigerator, gasoline-powered washer, and wood stove. It took longer for many in the Appalachian region, and 'old' cooking methods continued to be used. Fixing chicken, for example, meant killing and plucking, not going to the grocery store!
History always becomes more immediate when it can be related to 'real' people. The characters in this book come to life with the sensitive narration, and only grow in depth with re-reading.
I've tried some of the recipes in this book, especially those related to baking. All have worked well. Mere recipes, though, can't communicate the commitment and love that these people have given to their efforts.
This is a great book to read, and a good pathway to cooking methods of our ancestors. Comprehensive, and an excellent buy!
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Title: Foxfire 11 by Inc. Foxfire Fund, KAYE CARVER COLLINS, LACY HUNTER ISBN: 0385494610 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Foxfire 10 by Inc. Foxfire Fund, George P. Reynolds ISBN: 0385422768 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Foxfire Book : Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by theSigns, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining by Inc. Foxfire Fund, Eliot Wigginton ISBN: 0385073534 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 February, 1972 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Foxfire 9 by Inc. Foxfire Fund, ELIOT WIGGINTON ISBN: 0385177445 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Foxfire 8 by Inc. Foxfire Fund, Eliot Wigginton ISBN: 0385177410 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 20 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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