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Feasting and Fasting with Lewis and Clark: A Food and Social History of the Early 1800s
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by Leandra Zim Holland
Sales Rank: 495212
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List Price: $24.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
Published by: Old Yellowstone Publishing December 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 159152010X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1591520108
Book Dimensions:
10.1 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 2.8 pounds
Product Review
A remarkable soup to nuts answer Devour this book and keep it handy as an great reference guide. -- Stephanie Ambrose Tubbs, author.
The kind of work on Lewis and Clark foods and nutrition that has been needed for a long time. -- Joe Mussulman, PhD, Editor: Lewis-Clark.org
You have a gem embodied in this bookgreat piece of research It will add valuable information unavailable anywhere else -- Robert Moore, Historian, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial ("the Arch"), St. Louis
Product Description
What did the Lewis and Clark Expedition live on? Fresh bison on the High Plains, dried salmon in Columbia River country, dog and horse when necessary, vegetables offered by Indian hosts, portable soup, and salt pork carried from Philadelphia.
Leandra Holland’s narrative about what the expedition members ate on their journey makes this book a rich treat as well as a solid reference for historians, researchers, and re-enactors.
Extensive illustrations and a sprinkling of authentic recipes help to trace the expedition’s daily life, their food preparation, and their preservation and storage methods.
A detailed index, separate recipe and menu index, and item-by-item appendices of food groups further assist food lovers and Lewis and Clark buffs.
Reader Reviews
This is a wonderful book: large format, well-illustrated in both black and white and color, and a veritable feast of information on what the men of the Lewis and Clark expedition ate and how they cooked it. The book begins with several chapters about 1800 technology for hunting, cooking, preserving food, nutritional illnesses, and L and C's organization of the messes to keep their 32 men fed daily. It then proceeds onward to describe the expedition, always in terms of what the men ate from day to day and how it was cooked. There were the good times when they feasted on buffalo [...] and the bad times when they had little at all. There is much here about Indian foods, recipes (which usually include bear fat -- also useful for repelling mosquitos), salmon fishing, salt, and the infirmities the men of the expedition suffered as a result of their diet, excesses, and shortages of food. A third section goes into the foods, meals, and menus of the expedition. It lists the animals killed by the members of the expedition, especially by George Drouillard, a half-breed Indian hunter: 1048 deer, 259 buffalo, 193 Indian dogs, and everything else including one lonely fox. They liked beaver tail and buffalo [...]-- and didn't like pronghorn. All together they ate six pounds of meat per day per man. Menus of their feasts with Indian tribes are included: Teton Sioux, September 26, 1804, "Cooked dog -- the Sioux like theirs raw -- Pemmican, ground potato (good)." The detail in this book is astonishing; a million little facts about food along the way enliven the text -- a brief passage asks whether L and C ate candles in desperation and another describes the "Pawpaw malady" that mysteriously caused illness among their men. If you are interested in Lewis and Clark, food, cooking, Indians, edible plants, hunting or the early West this is a superb book. Smallchief
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