{"product_id":"the-way-we-ate-pacific-northwest-cooking-1843-1900-9780874221367","title":"The Way We Ate: Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eProbing diaries, letters, business journals, and newspapers for morsels of information, food historian Jackie Williams here follows pioneers from the earliest years of settlement in the Northwest--when smoldering logs in a fireplace stood in for a stove, and water had to be hauled from a stream or well--to the times when railroads brought Pacific Northwest cooks the latest ingredients and implements. The fifty-year journey described in \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Ate\u003c\/i\u003e documents a change from a land with few stores and inadequate housing to one with business establishments bursting with goods and homes decorated with the latest finery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike she did in her earlier acclaimed volume, \u003ci\u003eWagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail\u003c\/i\u003e, Williams has in her latest book shed important new light on a little-understood aspect of our past. These tales of a pioneer wife bemoaning her husband's gift of a cookbook when she really needed more food, or preparing sweets and savories for holiday celebrations when the kitchen was just a tiny space in a one-room log cabin, show another side of the grim-faced pioneers portrayed in movies. Here we encounter real American history and culture, one that vividly portrays the daily lives of the people who won the West--not in Hollywood gun battles, but in the kitchens and fields of a world that has disappeared. Interlacing a lively narrative with the pioneers' own words, \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Ate\u003c\/i\u003e is truly a feast for those who believe that \"much depends on dinner.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliams, Jacqueline:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJacqueline Williams researches and writes about the daily life of those who traveled the Oregon Trail and settled in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of the cookbooks, \u003ci\u003eNo Salt, No Sugar, No Fat\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHold the Fat, Sugar, and Salt\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLowfat American Favorites\u003c\/i\u003e. Williams lives in Seattle where she collects early Pacific Northwest cookbooks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Washington State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777271136530,"sku":"9780874221367","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bee87819-a1ab-4d11-a954-ab39c08401f1.jpg?v=1765358414","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-way-we-ate-pacific-northwest-cooking-1843-1900-9780874221367","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}