Dining with Jane Austen |
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| Author:
| Gehrer, Julienne |
| Photographer:
| Gehrer, Julienne |
| Editor:
| Gehrer, Julienne |
| ISBN: | 978-0-692-83151-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2017 |
| Publisher: | Ash Grove Press, Inc., The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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The idea for Dining with Jane Austen began with two handwritten cookbooks held within the Austen family circle. Paging through the period ?receipts? revealed instant connections with the food references in the author's letters and novels. Now Haricot Mutton, Orange Wine, Bath Buns, White Soup, and many other foods familiar to Jane Austen can be recreated using the author's own family recipes. Dining with Jane Austen follows the sequence of the author's life and letters, telling her...
More DescriptionThe idea for Dining with Jane Austen began with two handwritten cookbooks held within the Austen family circle. Paging through the period ?receipts? revealed instant connections with the food references in the author's letters and novels. Now Haricot Mutton, Orange Wine, Bath Buns, White Soup, and many other foods familiar to Jane Austen can be recreated using the author's own family recipes. Dining with Jane Austen follows the sequence of the author's life and letters, telling her story thorough the foods on her plate. This is the first work to feature recreations of the author's family recipes on family china in family houses where Jane Austen lived and dined.Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit Jane Austen's House Museum and Chawton House Library in Hampshire.