When author Karen Le Billion and her husband moved their family to France (near his parents) for a year, she learned just how fussy they were about eating ... and that wasn't just their two young daughters. French Kids Eat Everything: How our family moved to France, cured picky eating, banned snacking, and discovered 10 simple rules for raising happy, healthy eaters, is her delightful memoir of that year. How children are raised is very different in France ... kids learn to eat (or at least try) anything that is put on their plate. They will sit quietly for hours (meals are very important, food is savored, it's a very social thing) and not fuss. How is this done? There are some excellent and very specific rules for doing this ... and they work! There are recipes, too. Wait until you read about how a school lunch is done in France!

Instructions for basic coffee, maybe even barbaric coffee (I'm not sure about this, not being a coffee drinker) are to be found in Home on the Range: a Culinary History of the American West, by Cathy Luchetti. There's also one for 'Army Coffee for One Hundred'! There are recipes for venison, fish, and squirrel, too. There's also a lot of history and letters and journal entries from a lot of pioneering folk. A rich, detailed read with dozens of amazing archival photos, the very first one from this area!

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