Description
Revive your inner pilgrim and master the art of colonial cooking with sixty recipes celebrating The us’s earliest days!
From their voyage on the Mayflower to the days of the American Revolution, early American settlers struggled to live on in the New World. Sign up for us as we commute through time and discover how our forefathers fed their families and grew a nation, from eating nuts and berries to preparing improbable feasts of seafood and venison, and learn the way you’ll cook like them, too!
With gorgeous and whimsical hand-drawn illustrations from beginning to end, A Thyme to Discover, spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is an illustrated historical cookbook for foodies, history buffs, and Americans alike. Cohen and Graves reimagine old original colonial recipes from pilgrims, presidents, and Native Americans, and modify them to suit modern palates and tastes. Arranged chronologically as the English settlers cooked and ate their way into becoming Americans, these deliciously historical recipes include:
Including a “Tipsy Timeline” of New World alcoholic beverages, the menus of the oldest taverns in The us, and other bite-sized tidbits to satiate your curiosity and hunger, A Thyme to Discover revives forgotten culinary traditions and assists in keeping them alive, by yourself dinner table.