Civil War-era recipes for the kitchen and the rest of the house as well: how to cure gout
Italian broiled shrimp
Written by undernourished and starving women in the Czechoslovakian ghetto/concentration camp of Terezín (also known as Theresienstadt)
Aimed toward "all classes of women
(Cocktails) Baker, Charles H., Jr. The South American Gentleman's Companion: Volume I Being an Exotic Cookery Book, Volume II Being an Exotic Drinking Book. 2 vols. cooking Civil War-era recipes for theBlue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. First Edition. NY: Crown Publishers, 1951. The scarcer follow up to Baker's 1946 set, The Gentleman's Companion, with South American food and drink like the tropical orchid cocktail, orange paradise cocktail, Bogota blackjack cocktail, baked giant smelts, coq du Barsac, lomitos de carne, etc. Written in prose, including recipes, with historical and cultural references and anecdotes. A touch of sunning to