There is an interesting illustrated article HERE about cookbook author Mary Foote Henderson's entertaining and her huge mansion, Boundary Castle, built in 1888 in DC. Not your average cookbook writer's home.
Henderson was the author of Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving in 1877 [one of 76 digitized at the Feeding America site HERE] and Diet for the Sick, A Treatise on the Values of Foods HERE in 1885.
"She also became an impassioned evangelist of healthy living... writing a 1904 book, The Aristocracy of Health HERE... Mrs. Henderson was famous for her elegant dinners featuring strictly vegetarian cuisine and no alcohol. A 1905 fete included a fruit soup, mock salmon in hollandaise sauce, broiled slices of pine-nut Protose (Protose was a meat substitute made of peanut butter, wheat gluten, and corn starch, among other things), unfermented Catawba wine, iced fruit, and Kellogg Gelatine for dessert.... the printed menu cards for this dinner included figures corresponding to each item on the bill of fare, showing the ... 'calories' contained in each dish. Like all meals prepared by Mrs. Henderson's accomplished English chef, it was said that the uninitiated couldn't tell that they weren't eating meat or fish."
©2011 Patricia Bixler Reber
hearthcook.com
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
National Archives talks and other July events
What's Cooking Uncle Sam? June 10-January 2012 Exhibit at the National Archives in Washington DC. Newly listed events:
Tuesday, July 12, noon The Frozen Sucker War: Good Humor v. Popsicle [1920s]
Wednesday, July 20, noon The Astronaut’s Cookbook by Dr. Charles Bourland, retired long-time director of NASA’s food program.
Friday, August 5, noon A White House Garden Cook Book: Healthy Ideas from the First Family to Your Family
For past lectures and info about the National Archives new Wikipedian in Residence" click HERE
Other July activities
July 14-19 Herbal workshops. Plimoth Plantation
July 17 is National Ice Cream Day, with many events occuring during the entire National Ice Cream Month. At the end of June there was the Annual Icescreamers Convention in Lancaster PA.
July 28-29 5th Annual Kneading Conference in Skowhegan, Maine includes building ovens.
©2011 Patricia Bixler Reber
hearthcook.com
Tuesday, July 12, noon The Frozen Sucker War: Good Humor v. Popsicle [1920s]
Wednesday, July 20, noon The Astronaut’s Cookbook by Dr. Charles Bourland, retired long-time director of NASA’s food program.
Friday, August 5, noon A White House Garden Cook Book: Healthy Ideas from the First Family to Your Family
For past lectures and info about the National Archives new Wikipedian in Residence" click HERE
Other July activities
July 14-19 Herbal workshops. Plimoth Plantation
July 17 is National Ice Cream Day, with many events occuring during the entire National Ice Cream Month. At the end of June there was the Annual Icescreamers Convention in Lancaster PA.
July 28-29 5th Annual Kneading Conference in Skowhegan, Maine includes building ovens.
©2011 Patricia Bixler Reber
hearthcook.com
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