Rebecca Sharpless
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Language
English
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"In April 1930, five hundred potential customers showed up at the opening of Staunton's curb market, and in 1936, the market's most successful vendor, Nettie Shull, made more than $2,000 by selling potato chips, fried apple pies, potato salad, and dressed poultry." This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of "Southern Cultures". The full issue is also available as an ebook. "Southern Cultures" is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter)...
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Physical Desc
x, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of Southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions -- Indigenous American, European, and African -- collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create...