A History of Cookbooks
Author | : Henry Notaker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2022-09-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520391499 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520391497 |
Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Download or read book A History of Cookbooks written by Henry Notaker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.