Alamode Beef

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

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    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
I Hear America Cooking

By Betty Fussell

Published 1986

  • About

To chart the course of cooking in New England is to see how the mighty fell between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the end of it, when the domestic arts converted to utilitarianism and justified that faith by science. The climate of Boston fostered not only Mary Baker Eddy’s science and health but Fannie Farmer’s as well. Science’s gain was art’s loss, as we can see in the