Simplicity and Excellence (eBook)

Elizabeth Kremer from Beaten Biscuits to Shaker Lemon Pie

Deirdre A. Scaggs, Evalina Kremer Settle (Autoren)

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2024
240 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
9781985900073 (ISBN)

Infos

Born at the turn of the twentieth century in Cynthiana, Kentucky, Elizabeth Cromwell Kremer was a woman who strove for excellence in all things. Ever resistant to the constraints of social conventions, at a time when roughly 20 percent of the US workforce was female, Kremer worked her way up the ranks of the service industry. From the home economics classrooms of the University of Kentucky to the fine dining restaurants of Louisville and New York City, Kremer's tenacity, unconventionality, and dedication helped her build a legacy that celebrated the simplicity of good, traditional Kentucky country cooking. In 1967, after taking a twenty-seven-year hiatus from work to raise her family, Kremer reentered the business world at the age of sixty-five to open a restaurant for Kentucky's newly restored Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill. Under her guidance, what began as a small sandwich shop flourished into the iconic Trustees' Table restaurant at Shaker Village, which continues to attract guests from all over the world. In Simplicity and Excellence: Elizabeth Kremer from Beaten Biscuits to Shaker Lemon Pie, authors Deirdre A. Scaggs and Evalina Settle compile the first-ever biography of this incredible woman. Each of Kremer's classic recipes is bookended by charming and inspiring stories of her life, drawn from oral history passed down by Kremer's family and friends as well as archival materials. A gastronomic history like no other, Simplicity and Excellence effortlessly paints a portrait of one of the most influential forces behind the preservation of Kentucky's culture through its cuisine.

Autor

Deirdre A. Scaggs is associate dean of the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center. She also serves as director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center. She is coauthor of The Historic Kentucky Kitchen: Traditional Recipes for Today's Cook and Our Rightful Place: A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880–1945. Evalina Kremer Settle is a calligrapher, illustrator, and studio artist. She partnered with her mother, Elizabeth Kremer, and sister on two previous Shaker recipe books: We Make You Kindly Welcome: Recipes from the Trustees' House Daily Fare and Welcome Back to Pleasant Hill.

Inhalt

Foreword, by Ouita Michel
Preface
Introduction
1. A Sense of Place
2. The College Student
3. The Professional
4. The Home Economist
5. Shaker Your Plate
Epilogue
Afterword, by Sara Bradley
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2024
• Nachwort: sara bradley
• Vorwort: Ouita Michel
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Schlagworte: Biography • cookbooks • Culinary history • elizabeth kremer • Food • Kentucky • Kitchen • Pleasant Hill • Recipes • Restaurant Management • Shaker Village
• ISBN-13: 9781985900073 / 9781985900073