Dining at the Governor's Mansion

by McQueary, Carl

• ISBN13: 9781585442546
• ISBN10: 1585442542
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

Includes one part culinary history and one part social history, along with a generous helping of recipes cooked by Texas first ladies or (in later years) their personal chefs, from the completion of the Austin mansion in 1856 to the present.

Author Biography

Carl R. McQueary is a life-long Texas historian with an interest in Texas foodways and culture. He is the coauthor of two books about Texas' first woman governor, Miriam A. Ferguson and he has written and edited many articles on Texas history for various historical publications

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	3	(9)
A New Governor's Residence	12	(24)
Lucadia Christiana Niles Pease
Martha Caroline Adams Runnels
Margaret Moffatt Lea Houston
Troubled Times	36	(22)
Martha Melissa Evans Clark
Adele Baron Lubbock
Sue Ellen Taylor Murrah
Mary Jane Bowen Hamilton
Annie Rattan Throckmorton
Anne Elizabeth Britton Davis
Mary Evans Horne Coke
Janie Roberts Hubbard
Gracious Years	58	(35)
Frances Wickliffe Edwards Roberts
Anne Maria Penn Ireland
Elizabeth Dorothy Tinsley Ross
Sarah Ann Stinson Hogg
Sallie Harrison Culberson
Orline Walton Sayers
Sarah Beona Meng Lanham
Mansion Improvements	93	(35)
Fannie Irene Bruner Campbell
Alice Fuller Murrell Colquitt
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson
Willie Chapman Cooper Hobby
Myrtle Mainer Neff
Return to Elegance	128
Mildred Paxton Moody
Maud Abbie Gage Sterling
Joe Betsy Miller Allred
Merle Estelle Butcher O'Daniel
Blanch Fay Wright Stevenson
Mabel Buchanan Jester
A New Era	174	(226)
Marialice Shary Shivers
Jean Houston Baldwin Daniel
Idanell Brill Connally
Ima Mae Smith Smith
Betty Jane Slaughter Briscoe
Restoration	226	(53)
Rita Crocker Clements
Linda Gale Thompson White
The Honorable Ann Willis Richards
Laura Welch Bush
Anita Thigpen Perry
Old-Fashioned Measurements and Their Modern Equivalents	279	(2)
Timeline of Governors, First Ladies, Food, and History	281	(16)
Bibliography	297	(10)
Index	307