@book{8218,
author = {Henry Notaker},
title = {A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries},
year = {2017},
pages = {384 pp.},
publisher = {University of California Press},
address = {Oakland, CA},
isbn = {9780520294004},
note = {
Contents:
- 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
},
language = {English},
}