Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South, contributed by descendants

Jacqueline Harrison Smith

How to cook a husband is the joke; the rest is serious heirloom cooking. These famous old receipts, used a hundred years and more in kitchens North and South, arrive credited to the contributing families, with luncheon menus attached. American cooking treated as inheritance, name by name. Borrow another family's hundred-year secrets.