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Invention of the modern cookbook / Sandra Sherman.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 652 .C37 n.639
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherman, Sandra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking.
- Cooking, British--History.
- Food habits--Great Britain--History.
- Cooking, American--History.
- Food habits--United States--History.
- Cooking, American.
- Cooking, British.
- Food habits.
- Great Britain.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, ©2010.
- Summary:
- Every kitchen has at least one well-worn cookbook, but just how did they come to be? Invention of the Modern Cookbook is the first study to examine that question, discussing the roots of these collections in 17th-century England and illuminating the cookbook's role as it has evolved over time. --from publisher description.
- Contents:
- Culinary authority
- Intelligible recipes and competent instruction
- Complementary material
- Celebrity chefs
- Marketing strategies
- Niche and specialty cookbooks
- Point of view.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- British Library not licensed to copy 0.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sherman, Sandra. Invention of the modern cookbook.
- ISBN:
- 9781598844863
- 1598844865
- 9781598844870
- 1598844873
- OCLC:
- 540643975
- Online:
- http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/Doc?id=10399175
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