The Horn Book Guide

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Fischer, Maureen M.

Nineteenth-Century Lumber Camp Cooking

32 pp. | Blue Earth | March, 2001 | Library ISBN 0-7368-0604-0 $$22.60

(4) 4-6 Exploring History Through Simple Recipes series. Combining appropriate recipes and a focus on cooking and eating with facts about life in a logging camp, gold rush town, whaling ship, or Native American village, these volumes offer readers a chance to taste history. Although the recipes aren't designed to be used by young cooks, the books are well laid out and illustrated with historical drawings or black-and-white photos. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam