American cuisine is a combination of the best and brightest of every culture world wide beginning with the early cookbooks of the eighteenth century.

Martha Washington, for example, was America's earliest celebrity chef. Her recipe collection was a beloved family heirloom, which she lent out to friends one “recipe” at a time. Others followed.

• It is all here in Our Founding Foods:
• pioneer campfire cookery
• the first Mexican American cuisine
• the liberated voices of former slave chefs
• and the Grand Dames of the early cooking schools.

Author Jane Tennant presents over 200 recipes drawn from the best early American cookbooks, all written during the first two hundred years of our culinary history.

Each recipe is referenced to its original source with biographical notes on the chef who published it.

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