Jacksonville sesquicentennial cooks' book

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Jacksonville sesquicentennial cooks' book

Entry/Object ID

2015.1.4779

Description

xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Cover title: Joanne's Cooks' Book. The editor was Mrs. George M. Linville. Printed by Ambrose the Printer, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida. Lists members of the Sesquicentennial Committee, Sales and Marketing Committee, and Cookbook Committee. "As a contribution to our city's birthday celebration, we present this Jacksonville Sesquiceniennial Cooks' Book. Ours is not just a regional cookbook, for we are truly a cosmopolitan city - a melting pot of many ethnic cultures and nationalities. In addition, the book depicts, in pictures and prose, what we were and what we have become." -- Intro Illustrations include: Breakfast menu from Windsor Hotel -- Jean Ribaut meeting Timucuan chief -- French colony at Fort Caroline and on abundance of grapes -- Frenchman showed Dr. Monardes sassafras and its healing ability -- trails called Wacca Pilatka and Kings Road which led to a ferry at Cow Ford -- William G. Dawson and Stephen E. Buckles store near Adams and Market streets -- Isaiah David Hart, John Brady, and Lewis Zacariah Hogans laid out first streets -- Council created by first city charter and its duties -- Recounting of steamboat between John Sylvester and Dictator the 50 miles from Palatka and Jacksonville -- Sidney Lanier's travel book enticed people to winter in Jacksonville -- Charles Dickens Jr. visit and writing of "Florida Sketches" in 1885 -- Fire of 1901 and rescue of Mellen Greeley and others by the Cummer's family yacht, Edith -- Trip to Pablo Beach on the Jax, Mayport, & Pablo railway with boarding at Floral Bluff north of Arlington through Eggleston Heights, Cosmo, Fulton, Mayport, Burnside Beach -- Building and influence of Acosta Bridge -- Jacksonville Port Authority created and function of ship chandler.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Cookbooks., Cooking, American -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Cookery, American -- Florida., Cooking -- Florida., Community Cookbooks -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Cookery -- Florida -- Jacksonville.

Publication Details

Author

Jacksonville Sesquicentennial Commission, Linville, Jo Ann

Edition

1st ed.

Publisher

Jacksonville Sesquicentennial Commission

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Jacksonville, Fla.

Call No.

TX 715 .J33 1971