A History of Cookbooks
Download or Read eBook A History of Cookbooks PDF written by Henry Notaker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Henry Notaker |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2017-09-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780520294004 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0520294009 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A History of Cookbooks by : Henry Notaker
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
