Patricia Bunning Stevens


Patricia Bunning Stevens is the author of Merry Christmas! A History of the Holiday. A historian and enthusiastic cook, she has been reading cookbooks since age eleven.


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Rare Bits

Unusual Origins of Popular Recipes

In terms of geological time, good cooks are a young species. They've been evolving for a scant half a million years, since fire was first tamed and tended. Rare Bits is a delightful and illuminating account of humankind's progression from skewering meat to whipping up a batch of Strawberries Sarah Bernhardt.…

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