Patricia B. Mitchell's Inkling Series
Booklist by Categories

Click on the individual titles to see covers and short descriptions of each book. This booklist may also be viewed in alphabetical and consolidated formats.

1600's

• The Good Land: Native American and Early Colonial Food
• Colonial Foodways: Pilgrims, Puritans, and Cavaliers, from Hunger to Feasting
• See also Time-Spanning Books.

1700's

• At the Table in Colonial America
• Revolutionary Recipes
• Colonial Spices and Herbs
• Colonial Christmas Cooking
• Cooking in the Young Republic 1780–1850
• See also Time-Spanning Books.

Early 1800's

• Cooking in the Young Republic 1780–1850
• That Palace in Washington: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1800–1850
• Pack the Skillet: American Pioneer Cooking
• See also Time-Spanning Books and Ladies' Clothing in the 1830's.

Mid- and Late 1800's

• Victorian Parlors and Tea Parties
• Delicacies in Proportion: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1850–1901
• Pack the Skillet: American Pioneer Cooking
• Dining Cars and Depots: Train Food in America
• Footloose, Fancy, and Free: A Victorian Vacation Recipe Book
• Victorian Christmas Celebration Cookbook
• See also Civil War Books, Time-Spanning Books, Southern Ladies' Civil War and Antebellum Fashions 1855–1865, and Grace in Skirt and Sleeve: Victorian Ladies' Clothing 1894-1901.

Early and Mid-1900's

• Plain Food & High Thinking: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1901–1953
• Dining Cars and Depots: Train Food in America
• Coming Home for Christmas Cookbook
• Sweet Memories of Christmas
• Real South Cooking: Authentic, Traditional Southern Food
• Good Food, Good Folks, Good Times: Just Being Southern
• See also Time-Spanning Books.

Time-Spanning Books

• Four Centuries of American Herbs
• Refreshments Now and Then: Colonial, Victorian, & Contemporary Sweets
• Suited to a Tea
• The Great American Apple: At the Very Core of Our Culture
• Soul on Rice: African Influences on American Cooking
• Mammy: The Hand that Rocked the South
• French Cooking in Early America
• La Cuisine Française des Premières Années de l'Amérique du Nord (French translation of French Cooking in Early America)
• German Cooking in America
• Mountain Foodways: Flavors of Old Europe on the Southern Frontier
• Southern Hospitality & Delectable Dishes
• An Affair of the Heart: America's Romance with Louisiana Food

Colonial

• The Good Land: Native American and Early Colonial Food
• Colonial Foodways: Pilgrims, Puritans, and Cavaliers, from Hunger to Feasting
• At the Table in Colonial America
• Revolutionary Recipes
• Colonial Spices and Herbs
• Colonial Christmas Cooking
• See also Time-Spanning Books.

Young Republic / Federal Period

• Cooking in the Young Republic 1780–1850
• That Palace in Washington: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1800–1850
• Pack the Skillet: American Pioneer Cooking
• See also Time-Spanning Books and Ladies' Clothing in the 1830's.

Civil War

• Cooking for the Cause: Confederate Recipes, Documented Quotations, Commemorative Recipes
• Confederate Camp Cooking
• Confederate Home Cooking
• Union Army Camp Cooking
• Northern Ladies' Civil War Recipes
• Yanks, Rebels, Rats, & Rations: Scratching for Food in Civil War Prison Camps
• Civil War Plants & Herbs
• Civil War Celebrations
• Home Front Regiment 1861–1865: Women Fighting from the Hearth
• See also Time-Spanning Books, Victorian Books, and Southern Ladies' Civil War and Antebellum Fashions 1855–1865.

Victorian

• Victorian Parlors and Tea Parties
• Victorian Christmas Celebration Cookbook
• Delicacies in Proportion: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1850–1901
• Footloose, Fancy, and Free: A Victorian Vacation Recipe Book
• Dining Cars and Depots: Train Food in America
• See also Civil War Books, Time-Spanning Books, Southern Ladies' Civil War and Antebellum Fashions 1855–1865, and Grace in Skirt and Sleeve: Victorian Ladies' Clothing 1894-1901.

African-American

• Soul on Rice: African Influences on American Cooking
• Plantation Row Slave Cabin Cooking: The Roots of Soul Food
• Mammy: The Hand that Rocked the South

French Colonial

• French Cooking in Early America
• La Cuisine Française des Premières Années de l'Amérique du Nord (French translation of French Cooking in Early America)
• See also An Affair of the Heart: America's Romance with Louisiana Food.

German-American

• German Cooking in America
• See also Mountain Foodways: Flavors of Old Europe on the Southern Frontier.

Native American

• The Good Land: Native American and Early Colonial Food

Southern Regional

• Real South Cooking: Authentic, Traditional Southern Food
• Good Food, Good Folks, Good Times: Just Being Southern
• Waking Up Down South: Southern Breakfast Traditions
• Delightful Dreams of Dixie Dinners: A Culinary and Sentimental Tour of the South
• Soul on Rice: African Influences on American Cooking
• Plantation Row Slave Cabin Cooking: The Roots of Soul Food
• Mammy: The Hand that Rocked the South
• Biscuits & Belles: Official Biscuit Manual and Guide to Southern Bellery
• Southern Hospitality & Delectable Dishes
• Butter 'em While They're Hot!
• Southern Born and BREAD
• Specialties from the Southern Garden: Nostalgic Vegetable Dishes
• Simply Scrumptious Southern Sweets
• Sweet 'n' Slow: Apple Butter, Cane Molasses, and Sorghum Syrup Recipes
• An Affair of the Heart: America's Romance with Louisiana Food
• Mountain Foodways: Flavors of Old Europe on the Southern Frontier
• Cooking for the Cause: Confederate Recipes, Documented Quotations, Commemorative Recipes
• Confederate Camp Cooking
• Confederate Home Cooking

Louisiana

• An Affair of the Heart: America's Romance with Louisiana Food
• See also French Cooking in Early America and La Cuisine Française des Premières Années de l'Amérique du Nord.

Southern Mountains

• Mountain Foodways: Flavors of Old Europe on the Southern Frontier
• Sweet 'n' Slow: Apple Butter, Cane Molasses, and Sorghum Syrup Recipes

Traditional and Natural Foods

• Just Naturally Sweet: Honey, Molasses, Sorghum, and Maple Syrup; No Refined Sugar
• Sweet 'n' Slow: Apple Butter, Cane Molasses, and Sorghum Syrup Recipes
• Apple Country Cooking
• The Great American Apple: At the Very Core of Our Culture
• Specialties from the Southern Garden: Nostalgic Vegetable Dishes
• See also Grist Mill Products and Herbs.

Grist Mill and Wholegrain Products

• Loaves of Love: Wholegrain Yeast Breads
• True Grist: Buckwheat Flour and Cornmeal Recipes
• Butter 'em While They're Hot!
• Southern Born and BREAD
• Grist Mill Quick Loaf Breads
• As The Mill Wheel Turns
• A Bowl of Soup, a Crust of Bread, & Thou

Herbs

• Four Centuries of American Herbs
• Colonial Spices and Herbs
• Civil War Plants & Herbs

Teas

• Suited to a Tea
• Victorian Parlors and Tea Parties

Christmas

• Colonial Christmas Cooking
• Victorian Christmas Celebration Cookbook
• Coming Home for Christmas Cookbook
• Sweet Memories of Christmas

Railroads and Travel

• Dining Cars and Depots: Train Food in America
• Footloose, Fancy, and Free: A Victorian Vacation Recipe Book

Presidents, First Families, and the White House

• That Palace in Washington: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1800–1850
• Delicacies in Proportion: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1850–1901
• Plain Food & High Thinking: An Anecdotal History of White House Entertaining 1901–1953

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