Books written by William Woys Weaver

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History

For seed-saving purposes, it is important to know that turnips will cross with broccoli rabe, Chinese cabbage, and Chinese mustard, as well as with any wild turnips naturalized in the vicinity. Several forms of Brassica rapa have become ...
As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine

Miss McKenzie was one of the early advocates of chicken and waffles as a dish worthy of the attention of home economists if for no other reasons than the gravy could use up leftovers or even canned meat and the waffles could be made ...
100 Vegetables and Where They Came From

Peach Blow Potato the past. Good ghosts, mind you, but lots of them. This is not an old-time potato like Garnet Chili or Beauty of Hebron (page 24), which had their genealogical papers stamped and sealed by it was planted by growers in ...
As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine

In any case the picture is somewhat different from the Reformed Mennonite meal described by Helen R. Martin, ... To put Mrs. Hoffman's funeral dinner in perspective and to add contrast to the Amish meal described by Helen R. Martin, ...
Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History

When his squash was recrossed about 1853 with a pure Valparaiso, it produced a new variety called Stetson's Hybrid or Wilder. That cross was created by A. W. Stetson of Braintree, Massachusetts, and named for the Honorable Marshall P.
A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea

This may reflect the peculiarities of regional taste as well as the fact that both Lea and Randolph were familiar with Maria Rundell's New System of Domestic Cookery and drew on this work for some of their material.45 Randolph in ...
35 Recipes's from the Larder Invaded

35 Recipes's from the Larder Invaded
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture [Vol. 2]: Food Production to Nuts

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture will be a classic for years to come."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004
Sauer's Herbal Cures: America's First Book of Botanic Healing, 1762-1778

Thyme 323 all manner of sorrow . ... for the glory of God and the love of one's neighbor , or for vanity and empty amusement ; and whether tea amounts to an ordinary meal , 238 or whether an uncommon amount of time is wasted upon it .
The Larder Invaded: Reflections on Three Centuries of Philadelphia Food and Drink : a Joint Exhibition Held 17 November 1986...

The Larder Invaded: Reflections on Three Centuries of Philadelphia Food and Drink : a Joint Exhibition Held 17 November 1986...
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets

Noted food historian William Woys Weaver charts with fascinating detail the development of Christmas culinary traditions and has collected recipes for Christmas sweets from all over the country.
Dutch Treats: Heirloom Recipes from Farmhouse Kitchens

Internationally known food historian William Woys Weaver presents a richly photographed gastronomical journey into the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch food traditions, with more than 100 heritage recipes and the colorful stories behind them - ...
America Eats: Forms of Edible Folk Art

Abstract: This book is about the relationship of folk cookery, the cookery of the common man, to folk art and the kinship these two ideas share when they come together...
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture: Obesity to Zoroastrianism

This volume, arranged alphabetically from "Obesity" to "Zoroastrianism," contains articles on food and its place in human culture and society.
Flavors from the Garden: Heirloom Vegetable Recipes from Roughwood

As a trusted expert in the lore of the garden, you can’t do much better than celebrated author, chef, and custodian of the Roughwood Seed Collection, William Woys Weaver.
Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking

Over 125 original recipes provide clear instructions for such delights as crusty farm breads, peasant one-pot dinners, luscious spring soups, and light, sophisticated salads made with regional specialties like spelt...
Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History

A Master's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History By William Woys Weaver Heirloom vegetables -- open pollinated vegetables with genetic diversities that fight back against weakening diseases -- are rediscovered in this ...
Culinary Ephemera: An Illustrated History

Food-lovers, professional and otherwise, will find that every one of these provocative images inspires new questions, fresh ideas and enormous delight."_Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century ...