The popular culinary history with dozens of newly discovered receipts returns in paperback
At the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton plantation in an isolated area in the South Carolina Lowcountry. In a receipt book she assembled a collection of culinary and medicinal recipes reflecting her ties to both North and South. These documents provide a flavourful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South.