Title: Great Food HIstory Resource with Contested Past
Review: I'd rate it five stars, but reading antique cookbooks isn't for everyone. I also only read the first section, which Simmons disavows writing, and skimmed the rest. To me it seems obvious that a man wrote that section though from a quote in the piece on potatoes, especially when you consider Simmons was an orphan. "The manner of their managing it to keep up the excellency of that root, would better suit a treatise on agriculture and gardening than this--and be inserted in a book which would be read by the farmer, instead of his amiable daughter. If no one treats on the subject, it may appear in the next edition." But, then again, I might just find it obvious because I knew those were contested pages before I began reading.
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