A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page Over Seven Centuries
- ISBN-10
- 0520294009
- ISBN-13
- 9780520294004
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-09-05
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Henry Notaker
Description
Prologue: a rendez-vous -- The cook -- Writer and author -- Origin and early development of modern cookbooks -- Printed cookbooks: diffusion, translation, and plagiarism -- Organizing the cookbook -- Naming the recipes -- Pedagogical and didactic aspects -- Paratexts in cookbooks -- The recipe form -- The cookbook genre -- Cookbooks for rich and poor -- Health and medicine in cookbooks -- Recipes for fat and lean days -- Vegetarian cookbooks -- Jewish cookbooks -- Cookbooks and aspects of nationalism -- Decoration, illusion, and entertainment -- Taste and pleasure -- Gender in cookbooks and household books -- Epilogue: cookbooks and the future
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