Detroit’s Delectable Past:: Two Centuries of Frog Legs, Pigeon Pie and Drugstore Whiskey (Food & Drink) (American Palate)

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Sign up for local food aficionado Bill Loomis on a look back at the appetites, tastes, kitchens, parties, holidays and on a regular basis meals that defined eating in Detroit, from the earliest days as a French village to the beginning of the 20th century. Whether it is at a frontier farmers’ market, a Victorian twelve-course children’s party replete with tongue sandwiches or a five-cent-lunch diner, food is a chief ingredient in a community’s identity and history. Even as showcasing favorite fare of the day, this book also explores historic foodways–how locals fished the Detroit River, banished flies from kitchens without screens and harvested frog legs with miniscule shotguns. Wedding feasts, pioneer grub, cooking classes and the thriftless ’20s are all at the menu, too.

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