Marion Cabell Tyree

Marion Cabell Tyree (Lynchburg, Virginia[1]) was the author of the influential cookbook Housekeeping in Old Virginia (1877). A granddaughter of Patrick Henry,[2] she compiled the recipes in her cookbook with the help of "two hundred and fifty of Virginia's noted housewives".[3]

Civil War legacy

Modern scholars of the culture of the Southern United States after the American Civil War have identified the rhetorical techniques used by Tyree to establish credibility for her book and its heritage. For instance, she lists the names of all those who contributed recipes; "they establish a pedigree for the book".[1] Tyree explicitly staged the book as "a response to changes wrought on upper-class white households"; these recipes and household tips, she says, will help the "elegant and refined women" who may find themselves without a cook.[4]

References
  1. Ferris, Marcie Cohen (2014). The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region. U of North Carolina P. p. 92. ISBN 9781469617688.
  2. Akers, E. L. (1913). "Lynchburg chapter". Proceedings of the Sixteenth Virginia State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution. pp. 41–42.
  3. Egerton, John (1987). Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History. U of North Carolina P. pp. 370–71.
  4. Witt, Doris (2004). Black Hunger: Soul Food and America. U of Minnesota P. ISBN 9781452907314.


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