Contents

Introduction: Cookbooks as the Key to Kentucky Foodways and Culinary History

1. The First Kentucky Cookbook: Antebellum Hearth Cooking

2. The Needs of the “New Regime”: Post–Civil War Cookbooks

3. A Turning Point: The Early Twentieth Century

4. Hard Times: The Great Depression and the New Deal

5. New Foods and New Roles: World War II

6. Convenience and Innovation: The Mid-Twentieth Century

7. Iconic Recipes and Kentucky Foodways: The Bicentennials and Beyond

8. Eating Locally and Sustainably: Contemporary Kentucky Cookbooks

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Annotated Bibliography of Kentucky Cookbooks

Index