Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns, and Other Reminiscences

Prairie Cooks

by Carrie and Felicia Young

The daughter of my great grandparents met and married my grandfather Jens Winsness, after meeting him while she was a cook for a thrashing crew in the middle of North Dakota in 1911. This book is as close as I can get to understanding her life as a cook for the crew, and the woman my grandfather fell in love with!

Jim Winsness

Table of Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Lutefisk and Lefse
  3. Cooking for the Threshers
  4. All of Her Mother's Children
  5. Liver, Black Pudding, and Antiphlogistine
  6. A Flair for the Dramatic
  7. Glorified Rice
  8. One Man's Meat
  9. A Born Cook
  10. Bloomers
  11. Kaffe Tid
  12. Gigi
  13. Entire County Saved by Rhubarb

From the Back Cover

In her warm and often deliciously funny memoir Prairie Cooks, Carrie Young celebrates the Norwegian American Foods of her childhood in an artful blend of reminiscences and recipes.

Library of Congress Catalog Record

  • LC Control No.: 93017414 LCCN
  • Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
  • Personal Name: Young, Carrie.
  • Main Title: Prairie cooks : glorified rice, three-day buns, and other reminiscences / by Carrie Young with Felicia Young.
  • Published/Created: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1993.
  • Related Names: Young, Felicia.
  • Description: x, 134 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
  • ISBN: 0877454361 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Notes: Includes index.
  • Subjects: Cookery, Norwegian. Norwegian Americans --Food --North Dakota. Norwegian Americans --North Dakota --Social life and customs.
  • Series: A Bur oak original
  • LC Classification: TX722.N6 Y68 1993
  • Dewey Class No.: 641.59481 20
  • Geographic Area Code: n-us-nd

 

 
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