With over 350 recipes, 150 family photos and several vignettes about family members such as Even Norton Horsford who invented double-acting baking powder and Isabella Stewart Gardner who liked tea parties as much as art, this book was several years in the making. Mary Koenig Loring, a native Mid-Westerner who married a New Englander, has produced a cookbook that documents, preserves and celebrates both families’ food traditions from Joseph Peabody’s Punch to Rosie Loring’s Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Bacon and Onions.