Jean Anderson
I love this book! The great-granddaughter of Robert E. Lee, Anne Carter Zimmer has taken a faded little notebook full of Lee family chat and recipes, added months of research, and dished up an insider's glimpse of the great Confederate general 'at home.' She also gives us an illuminating portrait of the Lee family before and after the Civil War.
From the Publisher
Charming. . . . [Zimmer] provides details on almost every aspect of culinary arts of the last century. . . . [A] delightful book for anyone who wants to know about day-to-day life in the mid-1800s. It is exquisitely done.—Civil War Courier
Southerners true to their heritage—the abiding value of family and food—will find pleasure in The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book. . . . The foods and recipe portions of the book [are] a nostalgic delight.—Greensboro News and Record
Anne Carter Zimmer has blended the ingredients of recipe experimentation, family traditions, and regional heritage into a confection with a message.—Southern Quarterly
For the cook, the historian, the Robert E. Lee enthusiast, and the dilettante reader, this is a truly useful and charming volume.—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
I love this book! The great-granddaughter of Robert E. Lee, Anne Carter Zimmer has taken a faded little notebook full of Lee family chat and recipes, added months of research, and dished up an insider's glimpse of the great Confederate general 'at home.' She also gives us an illuminating portrait of the Lee family before and after the Civil War.—Jean Anderson, author of The American Century Cookbook
Delving deeper than the usual 'who married whom' and 'whose daddy did what,' Zimmer explores how the Lees lived their daily lives, focusing on the foods they ate and how they ran their homes. . . . Even more interesting, Zimmer provides some light gossip and shares a few intimate details of the Lees' domestic lives, which gives the reader refreshing insight into their human frailties. . . . Most Southern cooks will probably find the recipes intriguing and the content of the book entertaining and historically enlightening—even if their ancestry is not included in the Lee family tree.—Taste Full
