Contains over sixty years of recipes and reminiscences from the life of Nebraska farmwife Alice Mickish Hendrickson, as told to her daughter.

Pot on the Fire is the latest collection from "the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher" (Connoisse

First published in 1983, John Mariani's Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink has long been the go-to book on all things culinary. Last updated in the late 19

Teaches the skills of pioneer crafts such as braiding hair, panning for gold, laying a fire, spinning yarn, milking a cow, predicting the weather, making a nigh