Abraham and Mary Lincoln : corn dodgers and egg corn bread -- Lincoln's gingerbread men -- Life on the Indiana frontier: pawpawss, honey, and pumpkins -- Journeys of discovery: New Orleans curry and New Salem biscuits -- Bacon and black hawk -- Courtship and cake: the Lincolns' romance and Mary Todd's almond cake -- Eating up Illinois politics : barbecue, biscuits, and burgoo -- "Salt for ice cream" : Springfield scenes from diaries and grocery ledgers -- Piccalilli: of fruits and vegetables -- Talking turkey: clues to life in the Springfield home -- At the crossroads of progress: Irish stew, German beef, and oysters -- Inaugural journey banquets and settling into the White House -- Summer cottage, soldier's bread -- Cakes in Abraham Linconln's name.
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