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Author O'Brien, Charmaine, author.

Title The colonial kitchen : Australia, 1788-1901 / Charmaine O'Brien.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Historic kitchens
Historic kitchens.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Colonial Kitchen; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Land and Its People: Time and Place; Chapter 2 Food Production; Chapter 3 The Kitchen; Chapter 4 The Cook and the Help; Chapter 5 Colonial Manners at Table; Chapter 6 The Meal; Chapter 7 Colonial Cookery Books; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary The Colonial Kitchen: Australia 1788-1901 explores the food and cookery of colonial Australians, challenging the prevailing stereotypes of them as dreadful cooks and uncouth eaters through a nuanced exploration of their kitchens, gardens and dining rooms, and the social and cultural systems that shaped their culinary practices.
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Subject Food habits -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Food habits.
Australia.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Cooking -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Cooking, Australian -- History -- 19th century.
Cooking.
Australia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Manners and customs.
Cooking, Australian.
COOKING -- General.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: O'Brien, Charmaine. Colonial kitchen. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 9781442249813 (DLC) 2016028418
ISBN 9781442249820 (Electronic)
144224982X
9781442249813 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1442249811