The Friends of Foodsville Free Library
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The following books from the past have recently arrived in the Foodsville Free Library.
Memoirs of a Stomach 9781429012737
The Book of Tea 9781429012799
The Delta's Best Cook Book 9781429011310
The Fireless Cook Book 9781429011464
The Progress Meatless Cook Book 9781429011419
Progressive Cookery 9781429011389
The Cooking Manual 9781429011426
The Young Housekeeper's Friend 9781429011891
Hartford Election Cake and Other Receipts 978142901158
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Foodsville Library Acquisition Report
Week of November 12, 2007
The following books are currently being processed at the Foodsville Mill and are scheduled to be received by the Foodsville Free Library this week.
The Virginia Housewife: or, methodical cook by Mary Randolph (1836)
Originally published in 1838, Randolph's work is more than just a regional cookbook. It also gives a picture of dishes that were popular around the coun...
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Sitting high on a hill in the center of Foodsville is the Foodsville Free Library. It was built in 2007 to house every known culinary work published before 1925. The Library's mission, borrowed from Ralph Waldo Emerson, is chiseled into its facade: "Free books leave us Free and make us Free!"
Foodsville Historian Paige Miller has written the following account:
"Foodsville was founded by a number of early visitors who, seeing an abundant land of opportunity, envisioned a city of food lovers wh...