At Home on the Range
While unpacking boxes of old family books recently, Elizabeth Gilbert rediscovered a dusty, yellowed hardcover called At Home on the Range, originally written by her great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. Having only been peripherally aware of the volume, Gilbert dug in with some curiosity, and soon found that she had stumbled upon a book far ahead of its time. Part scholar and part crusader for a more open food conversation, Potter espoused the importance of farmer’s markets and ethnic food (Italian, Jewish, and German), derided preservatives and culinary shortcuts, and generally celebrated a devotion to epicurean adventures. Reading this practical and humorous cookbook, it’s not hard to see that Gilbert inherited her great-grandmother’s love of food and her warm, infectious prose.
Proceeds from this book benefit ScholarMatch (scholarmatch.org).
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- McSweeney's
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781936365890
- Genres
- cookbooks, food, memoir, cooking, history, foodie, biography
- Release date
- 2012
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