At Home on the Range - Softcover

Potter, Margaret Yardley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938073681 ISBN 13: 9781938073687

Publisher: McSweeney's, 2013

Synopsis

A cookbook far ahead of its time, Margaret Yardley Potter’s At Home on the Range, originally published in 1947, was rediscovered by the author Elizabeth Gilbert who just so happens to be the author’s great-granddaughter. Gilbert’s Gima” was no ordinary housewife: at a time when the American dinner table was hurtling towards homogeny, Potter espoused the importance of farmers’ markets and ethnic food (when pizza was considered ethnic), derided preservatives and culinary shortcuts, and lustily celebrated her epicurean adventures. Part scholar, part crusader, and always throwing parties, Potter could not but be a source of Gilbert’s own love of food, and her warm, infectious prose.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Yardley Potter's book is culled from a lifetime of cooking and entertaining in her home, from the 1920s through World War II. In addition to being a cooking columnist for the Wilmington Star, she also painted, sold dresses, assisted in the birth of four grandchildren, and took up swing piano.

Elizabeth Gilbert is the best-selling author of numerous books, including Eat, Pray, Love, now a major motion picture. In 2008, Time magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Review:

She could have drunk and smoked Elizabeth David, M.F.K. Fisher and probably even Dorothy Parker under the table.” The New York Times

A cookbook for modern times and modern cooks, full of sassy jokes and smartly written recipes.” Bon Appetit

Delightfully humorous and remarkably insightful.” Los Angeles Times

About this edition

• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1938073681
• ISBN 13: 9781938073687
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240