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At home on the range / a cookbook presented by Elizabeth Gilbert, by her great-grandmother Margaret Yardley Potter.

by Potter, Margaret Yardley.

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McSweeney's Books, c2012.

Cooking, American.

9781936365890 (hbk.) :

1936365898 (hbk.) :

256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Originally published: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1947.

"While unpacking boxes of old family books recently, Elizabeth Gilbert rediscovered a dusty, yellowed hardcover called 'At Home on the Range,' originally written by her great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. Having only been peripherally aware of the volume, Gilbert dug in with some curiosity, and soon found that she had stumbled upon a book far ahead of its time. Part scholar and part crusader for a more open food conversation, Potter espoused the importance of farmer's markets and ethnic food (Italian, Jewish, and German), derided preservatives and culinary shortcuts, and generally celebrated a devotion to epicurean adventures. Reading this practical and humorous cookbook, it's not hard to see that Gilbert inherited her great-grandmother's love of food and her warm, infectious prose."--P. [4] of cover.

Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-

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