From hardtack to home fries: an uncommon history of American cooks and meals

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Barbara Haber, one of America's most respected authorities on the history of food, has spent years excavating fascinating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by women have shaped American history. As any cook knows, every meal, and every diet, has a story, whether it relates to presidents and first ladies or to the poorest of urban immigrants.

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