{"product_id":"the-way-we-ate-jacqueline-williams-9780874221367","title":"The Way We Ate: Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eProbing diaries, letters, business journals, and newspapers for morsels of information, food historian Jackie Williams here follows pioneers from the earliest years of settlement in the Northwest--when smoldering logs in a fireplace stood in for a stove, and water had to be hauled from a stream or well--to the times when railroads brought Pacific Northwest cooks the latest ingredients and implements. The fifty-year journey described in \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Ate\u003c\/i\u003e documents a change from a land with few stores and inadequate housing to one with business establishments bursting with goods and homes decorated with the latest finery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike she did in her earlier acclaimed volume, \u003ci\u003eWagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail\u003c\/i\u003e, Williams has in her latest book shed important new light on a little-understood aspect of our past. These tales of a pioneer wife bemoaning her husband's gift of a cookbook when she really needed more food, or preparing sweets and savories for holiday celebrations when the kitchen was just a tiny space in a one-room log cabin, show another side of the grim-faced pioneers portrayed in movies. Here we encounter real American history and culture, one that vividly portrays the daily lives of the people who won the West--not in Hollywood gun battles, but in the kitchens and fields of a world that has disappeared. Interlacing a lively narrative with the pioneers' own words, \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Ate\u003c\/i\u003e is truly a feast for those who believe that \"much depends on dinner.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacqueline Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0874221366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780874221367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Washington State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.04w x 0.66d","brand":"Jacqueline Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45476873601279,"sku":"9780874221367","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c45482c1-93d5-4b63-91f8-e90ca857bcab.jpg?v=1715918409","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-way-we-ate-jacqueline-williams-9780874221367","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}