An Antebellum Plantation Household

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Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq (1942�2014), a native of Charleston, was a great-great-great-granddaughter of Emily Wharton Sinkler. LeClercq was also the author of A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States and the editor of Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842�1865 and Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890�1910.

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At the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton plantation in an isolated area in the South Carolina Lowcountry. In a receipt book she assembled a collection of culinary and medicinal recipes reflecting her ties to both North and South. These documents provide a flavourful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South.

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The popular culinary history with dozens of newly discovered receipts returns in paperback