Author: Coffin, Robert P. Tristram, egged on by Ruth P. Coffin,
Title: Mainstays of Maine.
Description: NY, Macmillan, 1944. 2nd printing. VG in Fair DJ. Father's fish-head chowder, mother's baked beans, the Coffin family's trials & tribulations growing up in Brunswick area. Coffin celebrates the New England way of life and the ways of State-of-Maners in particular. He praises Maine's cooking, what to do with it, how to cook or prepare it, what seasons to eat it, how to make good eating into a philosophy, a poetry, and a civilization. Four chapters on Living Off the Countryin each season, praises old-fashioned country ways of cookery, commemorates his mother as an artist at the stove, and reveals many of her secret recipes. DJ shows woman at cook stove with ocean waves around her. DJ price clipped edge pieces missing from DJ at spine and edges, binding edge wear, owner name front endpaper.

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