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Includes 300 recipes from 13 of the earliest California cookbooks; 152 pages; $5.95. To purchase from Amazon, click on cover.
Featuring 250 recipes from 15 landmark vegetarian cookbooks; 152-pages; $5.95. To buy from Amazon, click on cover.
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Category Archives: Vegetarian
An Early California Vegetarian Fritter
I’ve previously reported on two other fritter recipes from among the selection of 16 early California fritters that I included in Vintage California Cuisine: a sweet potato fritter recipe from a San Francisco cookbook published in 1885 and a carrot … Continue reading
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Curry Comes to California, Circa 1885
When I set out to find 300 recipes from early California cookbooks that showed how a distinctive culinary sensibility began to emerge in the Golden State in the first decades after statehood, I was especially interested in finding evidence of … Continue reading
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An English Monkey on Bean and Nut Loaf
What the heck is “an English Monkey on Bean and Nut Loaf,” you ask. The answer is more convoluted, and debatable, than you may realize. But in short, the “English Monkey” part of this dish apparently dates back to someone … Continue reading
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Selling Vegetarianism in 1910 With Lentils Posing as Duck
Was vegetarianism a harder sell in Northern California than in Southern California a century ago? The San Francisco Chronicle certainly thought so, judging from an article in that paper in 1897 about a British immigrant named M.S. Manning, who had … Continue reading
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Courtesy of the Theosophists of 1897, Poor Man’s Cake
The first recipe I’ve chosen to report on here is Poor Man’s Cake. I’m in Los Angeles for a couple of weeks, back on a visit to my old stomping grounds from my new home base in Philadelphia. I’m staying at my … Continue reading
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