Word: piccalilli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author is the doyenne of American home cooking, and the best parts of her book are little sideline essays about the byways of food, such as planking shad, making piccalilli, a section on fresh-fruit desserts (including a silken strawberry ice) and the ineffable glory of peaches (part of the rose family, she reports). Lukins writes with the unforced authority of her affection for the U.S., which she crisscrossed 50 times to gather the 600 recipes here. United Airlines has just gone American and is serving 36,000 dishes a day from U.S.A. Cookbook. As porch reading...