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Detroit's delectable past : two centuries of frog legs, pigeon pie & drugstore whiskey / Bill Loomis.
- Title
- Detroit's delectable past : two centuries of frog legs, pigeon pie & drugstore whiskey / Bill Loomis.
- Author
- Loomis, Bill.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GT2853.U5 L66 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 187 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- History
- Detroit (Mich.) > Social life and customs
- Detroit (Mich.) > History
- Cooking > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Food industry and trade > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Dinners and dining > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Food > Social aspects > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Food habits > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Part I. On the Town -- Living It Up in Old Detroit : Restaurants, Taverns and Low-Lit Saloons -- Dinner Parties during Detroit's Gilded Age -- Christmas in Old Detroit -- Part II. Working for a Living -- To Market, To Market -- The Milk Peddlers' War -- Fishing for a Living in Detroit -- Passenger Pigeons' Last Stand -- Part III. Cooking at Home -- From Stone Hearth to Cookstove -- Cooking Lessons -- The Detroit Kitchen : Floor to Ceiling -- Much Ado about Mutton : Home Cooking -- The Terror of Vegetables : Cholera in Detroit -- Wild Game on the Table.
- ISBN
- 9781609496364
- 1609496361
- LCCN
- ^^2012029027
- OCLC
- 797334283
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library