Prairie Avenue Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from Prominent 19th-Century Chicago Families

This enchanting cookbook by Carol Callahan allows us to reverse time and transcend space in order to enter a period and place in American history when confidence abounded and all things seemed possible and some Chicago families were able to live in a manner never to be equaled. Judge for yourself. The thirty-five illustrations that accompany the text document what a grand life-style it was.

"If you want to see the richest half-dozen blocks in Chicago. . . drive down Prairie Avenue from …