Tag: # George W. Carver

George W. Carver, “How to Make Sweet Potato: Flour, Starch, Sugar, Bread, & Mock Coconut”, 1918 was a cookbook for the American sweet potato.  George W. Carver was a food and agriculture researcher at the Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama in the first half of the twentieth century.  The sweet potato recipes in this bulletin are … Continue reading George W. Carver, “How to Make Sweet Potato: Flour, Starch, Sugar, Bread, & Mock Coconut”, 1918.

George W. Carver  George W. Carver, “How to Grow the Tomato; and, 115 Ways to Prepare it for the Table”, 1918 was a cookbook written for the gardener that cooks.  The tomato is a New World plant that was unknown to Europe before the discovery of America.  During the 1600’s Italy first developed the “marinara … Continue reading George W. Carver, “How to Grow the Tomato; and, 115 Ways to Prepare it for the Table”, 1918.

George W. Carver, “The Pickling and Curing of Meat in Hot Weather”, 1925 was a cookbook on Southern style American recipes.  The cookbook contains a recipe for “Kentucky country ham” from Henry Clay.  The country ham shown in the picture, at the Kentucky State Fair sold for $ 2 million dollars. George W. Carver, “The … Continue reading George W. Carver, “The Pickling and Curing of Meat in Hot Weather”, 1925.

  George W. Carver, “How to Grow the Peanut; and, 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption”, 1916.  The dish displayed is “Kung Pao Chicken and Peanuts”; 105 recipes for peanuts in George Washington Carver’s book was the reason for selecting this dish.  The “Peanut Belt” (shown in the map below) is only  thirteen … Continue reading George W. Carver, “How to Grow the Peanut; and, 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption”, 1916.