A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2017
Author	Author: Henry Notaker
Language	English
Number of Pages	384 pp.
Publisher	University of California Press
City	Oakland, CA
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Region	Europe
Demographics	Women Jewish People, non US
Chronological Period	14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 1900-1949 1950-1999
ISBN	9780520294004
Annotation	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