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Detroit's delectable past : two centuries of frog legs, pigeon pie & drugstore whiskey /
- 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.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GT2853.U5 L66 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 187 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Food > Social aspects
- Food habits
- Food industry and trade
- Cooking
- Dinners and dining
- History
- Food > Social aspects > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Manners and customs
- Food habits > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Food industry and trade > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Detroit (Mich.) > Social life and customs
- Cooking > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Dinners and dining > Michigan > Detroit > History
- Detroit (Mich.) > History
- Michigan > Detroit
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187).
- Contents
- 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 -- Working for a living. To market, to market -- The milk peddlers' war -- Fishing for a living in Detroit -- Passenger pigeons' last stand -- 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
- 40021346878
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library