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Detroit's delectable past : two centuries of frog legs, pigeon pie & drugstore whiskey / Bill Loomis.

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Charleston, SC : History Press, 2012.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Undergraduate Library Storage	GT 2853 .U5 L66 2012	CHECKED IN

Description	187 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-187).
Contents	On the town. Living it up in Old Detroit : Restaurants, taverns and low-lit saloons -- Dinner parties during Detroit's gilded age -- Christmas in Old Detroit -- Working for a living.To market, to market -- The milk peddlers' war -- Fishing for a living in Detroit -- Passenger pigeons' last stand -- Cooking at home. From stone hearth to cookstove -- Cooking lessons -- The Detroit kitchen : floor to ceiling -- Much ado about mutton : home cooking -- The terror of vegetables : cholera in Detroit -- Wild game on the table.
Subject	Food habits -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
	Food -- Social aspects -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
	Dinners and dining -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
	Food industry and trade -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
	Cooking -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
	Detroit (Mich.) -- History.
	Detroit (Mich.) -- Social life and customs.
Standard No.	815643464
ISBN	9781609496364 (pbk.)
	1609496361 (pbk.)
UPC #	40021346878
OCLC #	797334283

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