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Summary: Entertaining and informative!
Review: Garry Fisher has put together a quick study of the Civil War soldier diet. It features chapters that focus on feeding the armies, recipes, camp songs derived from food and passing time in camp. Fisher brings to light the popular recipes commonly used by soldiers north or south. Recipes for cooking with hardtack, salt pork, corn bread and beef, give fascinating insight into these horrible foods soldiers were faced with eating. I recommend this book to anyone looking to get basic, popular camp recipes for campaign-style eating. Reenactors looking to improve their impression would benefit greatly by reading this informative, yet sometimes humorous book that captures the daily diet of a Civil War soldier. 5 STARS!
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Summary: Entertaining and informative!
Review: Garry Fisher has put together a quick study of the Civil War soldier diet. It features chapters that focus on feeding the armies, recipes, camp songs derived from food and passing time in camp. Fisher brings to light the popular recipes commonly used by soldiers north or south. Recipes for cooking with hardtack, salt pork, corn bread and beef, give fascinating insight into these horrible foods soldiers were faced with eating. I recommend this book to anyone looking to get basic, popular camp recipes for campaign-style eating. Reenactors looking to improve their impression would benefit greatly by reading this informative, yet sometimes humorous book that captures the daily diet of a Civil War soldier. 5 STARS!
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Summary: A delightful look into the daily life of Yanks and Rebels
Review: Garry Fisher offers an engaging account of the doldrums of army life in the 1860s. Rebel Cornbread and Yankee Coffee is packed with historical facts, written in a manner that brings the past right into present (even into your kitchen). This book includes something for everyone who is curious about what daily life was like for the soldiers who fought and died in the War Between the States. Garry Fisher's writing style is clean and clever. Throughout the book he skillfully weaves together vivid anecdotes with well-documented facts in an interesting and tastefully humorous way. Just a great read all around
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Summary: for the buff only
Review: This really isn't that interesting of a book. It's a collection of Civil War recipes--but nothing you'd want to eat. Really, this is only for the Civil War buff.
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