Food: The way it used to be.
Cross-posted at More or Less Bunk.

I just discovered Feeding America, historic cookbooks online at Michigan State University and am now deeply engrossed in Thomas Devoe’s The Market Assistant (from which the above picture is taken) and Artemas Ward’s The Grocer’s Encyclopedia. I think there’s a pretty good chance I might not surface for days.
[...] Now back to those cookbooks… [...]