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Author Hilliard, Sam Bowers, author.

Title Hog meat and hoecake : food supply in the Old South, 1840-1860 / Sam Bowers Hilliard ; with a foreword by James C. Cobb.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2014]
©1972
©2014

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Southern Foodways Alliance studies in culture, people, and place
Southern Foodways Alliance studies in culture, people, and place.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary When historical geographer Sam B. Hilliard's book Hog Meat and Hoecake was published in 1972, it was ahead of its time. It was one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in a region's history, culture, and politics, and it has since become a landmark of foodways scholarship. In the book Hilliard examines the food supply, dietary habits, and agricultural choices of the antebellum American South, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. He explores the major southern food sources at the time, the r.
Contents Cover; Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Self-sufficiency: The developing American Farm; 2 The problems of subsistence; 3 All kinds of good rations -- 4 The forests, streams, and the sea; 5 Pork: The South's first choice; 6 Beefsteaks and buttermilk; 7 The occasional diversion; 8 Corn pone and light bread; 9 Rounding out the fare; 10 Making up the shortage; 11 Independence for some; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
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Subject Food supply -- Southern States -- History.
Food supply.
Southern States.
History.
Food consumption -- Southern States -- History.
Food consumption.
Food habits -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Food habits.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Genre/Form History.
Other Editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Hilliard, Sam Bowers. Hog meat and hoecake. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, [1972] (DLC) 75156778
Other Form: Print version: Hilliard, Sam Bowers. Hog meat and hoecake 9780820346762 (DLC) 2013032585 (OCoLC)856579564
ISBN 9780820347028 (electronic book)
0820347027 (electronic book)
9780820346762
0820346764
Standard No. ebc1653225