Table of Contents

Selected Entries include: Acton, Elizabeth Air Conditioning Aphrodisiacs Baby Food Baking Banquets Birdseye, Clarence Bread Candles Cannibalism Chafing Dish Cheese Communal Meal Detergent Drying Foods Eggs Etiquette Farmer, Fannie Feng Shui Frontier Kitchens Garbage Glasse, Hannah Grog Hines, Duncan Honey Ice Cream Ironwork Japan Ware Kellogg, John Harvey Kimch'i Kitchen Gardening Lamps and Lights Linens Maillard Reaction Microwaving Mixers and Blenders Mortar and Pestle Needles, Kitchen Oil (as Food) Open-Hearth Cooking Pewter Plastics Precious Metals Querns Ramada Refrigeration Roman Cookery Salt Sieves and Strainers Smoked Food Stone Boiling Taro Television Kitchens Ulu Vacuum Cleaners Water Weights and Measures Women's Magazines Yeast and many more

About the Author

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Reviews

'Larger public and academic libraries, especially those with a demand for resources in the culinary arts, will want to consider this work.' - Library Journal

'Larger public and academic libraries, especially those with a demand for resources in the culinary arts, will want to consider this work.' - Library Journal
'Provides interesting historical perspectives on one of the most popular parts of anyone's home.' - Against theGrain
'The book is fascinating to browse... Recommended.' - Choice
'Snodgrass offers a resource text for students, teachers, historians, researchers, librarians, and chefs...' - Reference & Research Book News
'A prolific writer, Snodgrass gives us a reference source that covers the historical evolution of the kitchen and its roles in different societies... This resource would be useful in most culinary reference collections... Students, teachers, historians, anthropologists, and others studying at a college or trade school with a major in home economics or at a culinary school will find this resourcemost useful.' - American Reference Books Annual
'The scope of this guide is worldwide and encompasses much of human history... The author's chatty style and depth of detail is both entertaining and informative... Frequent cross-cultural comparisons are thought-provoking... This guide is suitable for both academic and public libraries.' - Lawrence Looks atBooks, Gale Reference Reviews