Guests return again and again for the delicious dishes served at Colonial Williamsburg's famed taverns and restaurants Chowning's Tavern Brunswick stew, Christiana Campbell's spoon bread, Shields Tavern syllabubs. In this best-selling cookbook, 193 traditional and contemporary recipes have been compiled and adapted for the home kitchen. Commentary discusses the cooking and eating habits of our colonial ancestors. Updated and enlarged by the staff of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Excellent Connection to Colonial Eating.:
`The Williamsburg Cookbook, Updated and Enlarged!' is one of those books I bought as a souvenir with relatively little thought of actually cooking from it, since I had no strong interest in recreating meals from Colonial Virginia. But then, I reviewed another `period piece' cookbook from Walter Staib of Philadelphia's City Tavern, which has also been transformed into a historically `accurate' culinary location. So, since I saw that this Williamsburg offering came up under a search for exemplars of... more info
colonial cooking shines:
I spent my honeymoon in Williamsburg and my family returns there every other year. This cookbook has allowed me to relive many happy hours in Colonial Williamsburg. The book is gorgeous and my only complaint is that it needed more photos. Classic colonial Southern cooking is displayed here:Sally Lunn bread, Salamagundi, and the best pound cake I've ever tasted. If you can find it you and anyone who eats the food will be happy.
Chow down, y'all.
A must for any connosseur of southern colonial cooking.:
Rated by "USA Today" as one of the six all-time classic southern cookbooks. With its elegant cover and photographs and distinquished historical narrative, afficionados of the taverns of Colonial Williamsurg (especially the King's Arms Tavern, that the author was hired by the Rockefeller family to run) will gain accolades for replicating the cookbook's user-friendly American colonial recipes. Time and again, my guests have asked me to prepare the eggnog pie I made last year and the wassail. Other favorites... more info
