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At Home on the Range : a Cookbook by Potter, Margaret Yardley;Gilbert, Elizabeth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is At Home on the Range : a Cookbook about?

Recently, while moving into a new house, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardcovers was a book called At Home on the Range (or, How To Make Friends with Your Stove) by Gilbert's 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. In her workaday cookbook, 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 seeking out new epicurean adventures. Potter takes car trips out to Pennsylvania Dutch country to eat pickled pork products, and during World War II she cajoles local poultry farmers into saving buckets of coxcombs for her so she can try to cook them in the French manner. She takes trips to the eastern shore of Maryland, where she learns to catch and prepare eels so delicious, she says, they must be "devoured in a silence almost devout." Part scholar—she includes a great recipe from 1848 for boiled sheep

Who reads At Home on the Range : a Cookbook?

Author

Potter, Margaret Yardley;Gilbert, Elizabeth

Publisher

McSweeney's Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781938073113

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Cooking, Home & Lifestyle

Rating

3.59 / 5 (270 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14