Dining at the governor's mansion / by Carl R. McQueary.

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No matter how you slice it up - as Texas history, food history, women's history or cookbook - this book offers a palate-pleasing smorgasbord for your reading, dining or gift-giving pleasure.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McQueary, Carl (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2003]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Cooking > Texas > Austin. Texas Governor's Mansion (Austin, Tex.) Cuisine > Texas > Austin. Cooking. Texas > Austin. Cookbooks.
Genre:	Cookbooks.
Online Access:	(Table of contents) (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Local Note:	MSU: Gift of Maureen and John Darling. MSU: In dust jacket.
Physical Description:	xv, 317 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

A New Governor's Residence 12
Troubled Times 36
Gracious Years 58
Mansion Improvements 93
Return to Elegance 128
A New Era 174
Restoration 226
Old-Fashioned Measurements and Their Modern Equivalents 279
Timeline of Governors, First Ladies, Food, and History 281.