Around the Tuscan Table or Low Cost Cooking

Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence

Author: Carole M Counihan

Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence. By looking at how family, and especially gender relations, have changed in Florence since the ending of World War II and continuing on to an examination of current food practices today, Around the Tuscan Table offers a portrait of the changing nature of modern life as exemplified through food. How food is produced, distributed, and consumed speaks volumes about a given culture, and this compelling and artfully narrated book aims to preserve, propagate, and interpret Florentines' world-renowned cuisine and culture.

At the market, in the kitchen, and around the table, Counihan gives readers a taste of everyday life in this region of Italy: how eating together unites the family; how the production of food is gendered; how food is a key tool of socialization, and how culture forms aesthetic tastes.

With more than 20 illustrations and age-old family recipes, this is a treat for the senses and the intellect.

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Low Cost Cooking

Author: Florence Nesbitt

Manual of cooking, diet, home management & care of children for housekeepers who must conduct their homes with economy, originally prepared in 1917. A fascinating collection of old recipes, and much of the common sense advice would still be very applicable today.

As the author said: "Economizing on food is a most dangerous thing to try unless the housekeeper has an understanding of food values. She must know what foods are necessary for the health of her family and in what food materials she gets the most for her money, to be able to decide where it is wise and safe to cut and where unsafe." The book was originally published by the American School of Home Economics.

Florence Nesbitt was field supervisor and dietician for the Department of Relief of the Juvenile Court of Chicago, lecturer for the Chicago Visiting Nurses' Association, and formerly visiting housekeeper of the United Charities of Chicago.

Table of Contents:

	Business of Home-Making	5
	Food and the Body	7
	A Well-Balanced Diet	9
	Economy in Buying	11
	Tables of Composition and Proportion	16
	Setting the Table	18
	Ceneral Household Directions	19
	General Recipes	21
	Week's Menu for Winter with Directions	66
	Week's Menu for Summer with Directions	86
	Additional Three Weeks' Menus for Winter	101
	Additional Three Weeks' Menus for Summer	104
	Calculation of Cost	107
	Household Helps--
1.	Home-Made Fireless	110
2.	Cold Lunches	112
3.	When Mother Works Outside the Home	113
	Feeding and Care of Children	117
	Index	223