TY - SER
AU - Henry Notaker
CY - Oakland, CA
LA - English
N1 -
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
PB - University of California Press
PP - Oakland, CA
PY - 2017
SN - 9780520294004
EP - 384 pp.
TI - A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries
ER -