The New York Times Heritage Cook Book

Compiled by New York Times food writer Jean Hewitt, this cookbook draws on the diverse culinary traditions that shaped American cooking, gathering regional and ethnic recipes that reflect the country's broad immigrant heritage. Organized as a recipe-driven reference, it is aimed at home cooks interested in the full range of dishes—from colonial-era preparations to mid-twentieth-century regional specialties—that contributed to the American table. Published in 1972, the volume represents a period of renewed popular interest in preserving and documenting American foodways, situating it as a useful historical record of the nation's culinary diversity as understood at that time.