Nancy Carter Crump

Food historian and author Nancy Carter Crump is the founder of the Culinary Historians of Virginia.

This book offers the original recipes with attribution (Eliza Leslie and other cookbook authors, plus manuscript cookbooks and recipes that reside in special collections) as well as modern directions for cooking at the hearth or with modern appliances. This is exactly what I like because it offers the opportunity for the reader/user to compare the original recipe with the redaction and thus allows the reader/user to assess the changes that may have been made.

I have not yet gone through this terrific book that will allow the modern cook to tackle 18th- and 19th-century recipes without fear of failure. I can’t wait to start cooking from it, and only the heaps of books that I have yet to log in are preventing me from doing so.… (mehr)