The Grass Roots Cookbook

by Jean Anderson

Recipes for chicken stew and dumplings, farm-style vegetable soup, shrimp gumbo, skillet squash, date bars, and hundreds of other old-fashioned regional American specialties are interwoven with the words of women entrusted with passing on the culinary arts they have learned from their ancestors

Genres: Cookbooks, Food

334 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1977

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anderson was a prolific food writer in the 1970's. "Grass Roots" is her national exploration of the cooking of the early 20th Century. Her research for this work relied extensively on the works of home economists - and home ec groups - associated with the USDA Extension Services and our Land Grant Universities. Not a scholarly work, but very usable.