Kay Moss

Author of The Backcountry Housewife

9 Works 120 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Kay K. Moss founded the Eighteenth-Century Backcountry Lifeways Studies Program at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia, North Carolina, and teaches open-hearth cookery at John C. Campbell Folk School. Her previous books include Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 (University of South Carolina Press), The show more Backcountry Housewife, Journey to the Piedmont Past, and Decorative Motifs from the Southern Backcountry, 1750-1825. show less

Includes the names: Kay Moss, Kay K. Moss, et al. Kay Moss, Kay Moss and Kathryn Hoffman

Works by Kay Moss

Popular Recent

The Backcountry Housewife (2001) 50 copies, 1 review

Southern Folk Medicine (1999) 27 copies

Journey to the Piedmont past : source book (2000) 10 copies

Decorative motifs: From the Southern backcountry, 1750-1825 (18th-Century Backcountry lifeways series) (2001) 10 copies

Seeking the Historical Cook: Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways (2013) 10 copies

A backcountry herbal of plants both wild and cultivated likely to be found in dooryards and kitchen gardens in frontier… (1993) 4 copies

Backcountry Herbal (1993) 4 copies

A Curious Garden of Herbs: Cultivated and Wild; Culinary, Medicinal, Cordial, and Amusing; of the Eighteenth-Century… (2020) 4 copies

The Backcountry Housewife: Volume 1 Improved: a Study of Eighteenth Century Foods 1 copy

Work Explorer

Tagged

18th century (6) American cooking (2) army (2) backcountry (2) book (2) cookbook (8) cookery methods (1) cooking (8) customs & lifeways (2) Early America (2) Fireside advice (1) folk medicine (2) folk remedies (1) food (5) food habits (1) foodways (2) German (3) Health & Healing (2) herbs (3) Historical kitchen (1) history (11) home economics (2) horticulture (1) housewife (2) living history (2) living history resource (2) medicine (2) methods (1) non-fiction (7) North Carolina (5) plants (2) Potherbs (1) recipes (5) reference (2) Scots-Irish (3) southern food (1) Southern States (1) special occasions (1) vegetables (1) women (2)

Common Knowledge

There is no Common Knowledge data for this author yet. You can help.

Members

Reviews

The Backcountry Housewife, Vol Improved. A study of… by Kay Moss

Nicely laid out; does a nice job of relating the receipts to the people of the region. Most of the receipts are from Hannah Glasse or Mary Randolph and so can be found in reproductions of their original source. But the few that are from manuscripts from the region are terrific primary resources.

Flagged

ccrown | Feb 4, 2009 |

See More Reviews

Statistics

Works: 9
Members: 120
Popularity: #165,356
Rating: ½ 3.5

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 14

Charts & Graphs

See More Charts & Graphs