Cookbook Library : Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook / Willan/Cherniavsky; ed. by Mark Cherniavsky, Anne Willan, Kyri Claflin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willan/Cherniavsky, Author.

Contributor:

Cherniavsky, Mark, Editor.

Claflin, Kyri, Editor.

Willan, Anne, Editor.

Series:

California Studies in Food and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--History.

Cooking.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.) : 150 b/w photographs

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2012]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This gorgeously illustrated volume began as notes on the collection of cookbooks and culinary images gathered by renowned cookbook author Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky. From the spiced sauces of medieval times to the massive roasts and ragoûts of Louis XIV's court to elegant eighteenth-century chilled desserts, The Cookbook Library draws from renowned cookbook author Anne Willan's and her husband Mark Cherniavsky's antiquarian cookbook library to guide readers through four centuries of European and early American cuisine. As the authors taste their way through the centuries, describing how each cookbook reflects its time, Willan illuminates culinary crosscurrents among the cuisines of England, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. A deeply personal labor of love, The Cookbook Library traces the history of the recipe and includes some of their favorites.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Our Library

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The World in a Cookbook

Antiquity through the Middle Ages. Feasts and Fasts

The Fifteenth Century. The First Printed Cookbooks

The Sixteenth Century. Culinary Expansion

The Seventeenth Century. Distinctive Voices

The Eighteenth Century. Enlightened Cooking

The Early Nineteenth Century. Celebrity Epicures

Epilogue: Toward the Modern Cookbook

Afterword: Collecting Cookbooks

Notes

Bibliography

General Index

Recipe Index

California Studies in Food and Culture

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35261-0

OCLC:

795525580