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Ichord, Loretta Frances

Hasty Pudding, Johnnycakes, and Other Good Stuff: Cooking in Colonial America

64 pp. | Lerner/Millbrook | November, 1998 | Library ISBN 0-7613-0369-3 $$22.40

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Jan Davey Ellis. Ichord describes settlers' foods, cooking techniques, food preservation, and Native and African-American influences. Recipes using modern techniques, with notes on colonial preparation, are interspersed throughout. Cartoonlike illustrations accompany the text, which makes a couple of overgeneralized statements (e.g., slaves arrived with pockets stuffed with "peanuts, black-eyed peas, okra, and benne...seeds"). Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges