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This Dover edition, first published in 1984, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of American Cookery, as published by Oxford University Press, New York, in 1958. The present edition is published with the permission of Oxford University Press, and of The William and Mary Quarterly: A Magazine of Early American History, in which the Wilson essay originally appeared (3d Ser., Vol. XIV, No. 1, January 1957; copyright 1957 by the Institute of Early American History and Culture). The perfect copy of the original edition of American Cookery used for the 1958 Oxford edition was reproduced by courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.

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Simmons, Amelia.

The first American cookbook.

Reprint. Originally published: American cookery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.

1. Cookery, American — Early works to 1800.      I. Simmons, Amelia. American cookery.      II. Title.

TX703.S53      1984                  641.5973                  84-4205

ISBN-13: 978-0-486-24710-6

ISBN-10: 0-486-24710-4

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