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Including pictures, anecdotes and recipes from an enormous range of sources, this volume presents an innovative history of cooking and eating in England and France, aiming to demonstrate that the cuisines of these two countries have been closely entwined for over a millennium. The book won the 1986 International Grand Prix for Gastronomic Literature. [via]
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Winner of the 1994 Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies
A detailed and colorful instruction manual on household management in sixteenth-century Russia, the Domostroi gives a fascinating glimpse of the world of the nobility. This "how-to" guide is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. Carolyn Johnston Pouncy here offers, with an informative introduction, the first complete English translation. [via]
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Contains 41 recipes from the noted 16th-century prophet and astrologer. 46 color illustrations. [via]
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In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives containing "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife." Markham reveals the "pretty and curious secrets" of preparing everything from simple foods to such elaborate meals as a "humble feast" - an undertaking which entails preparing "no less than two and thirty dishes, which is as much as can stand on one table." He instructs the housewife on brewing beer and caring for wine, growing flax and hemp for thread, and spinning and dyeing. As a housewife was also responsible for the health and "soundness of body" of her family, he includes advice on the prevention of everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath.No other source from this period provides the same richness of information in such a readable style. Michael Best's introduction and his abundant notes make "The English Housewife" readily accessible to the contemporary reader. Michael R. Best is Professor of English, University of Victoria. [via]
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Includes a section on medieval recipes and a practical guide to re-creating the dishes. [via]
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Food, glorious food. It's a basic requirement of daily life, more essential--and some would even say more comforting--than religion, love, or sex. Its considerable pleasures, not to mention the deeper emotional, psychological, religious, and social resonances connected with it, have long been celebrated and explored by writers in novels, poetry, drama, biography, diaries, and letters. Now, in Food: An Oxford Anthology, Brigid Allen brings together a splendid, soup-to-nuts cornucopia of comment and opinion on food from some of our greatest writers through the ages.
Ranging from royal banquets to afterschool snacks, from the Bible to George Orwell, from the diary of a castaway to instructions for dairy maids, this appetizing collection will entice anyone with an interest in food. From sources both published and unpublished, the selections illustrate how food defines taste and character, contributes to atmosphere, and evokes emotion and humor. There are lively anecdotes and bon mots on dining in and dining out, and entertaining vignettes from travellers to exotic climes (such as the succulent description written by a seventeenth-century visitor to Barbados upon eating pineapple for the first time). There is a menu from a dinner party for King Richard II in 1387--which called for, among many other things, 11,000 eggs, 210 geese, and 720 hens--and a young boy's description of the proper way to eat Cadbury chocolate bars. There is also a section considering the effects of war, famine, and poverty, as well as the dubious attractions of dieting and the regimens of prisons and schools. In one entry, Evelyn Waugh writes that the boys in his boarding school "were able to flick pats of margarine from their knives to the high oak rafters overhead, where they stuck all the winter until released by the summer heat they fell, plomp, on the tables below."
A smorgasbord of comment, criticism, observation, and reflection, Food: An Oxford Anthology is guaranteed to provide lasting nourishment. [via]
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Martha Washington's recipes. Over five hundred classics dating from the Elizabethan and Jacobean times, are gathered in this family cookbook that captures the essence of early American folk culture. Handed down as a manuscript cookbook for generations, Martha Washington's Book of Cookery has been annotated by Karen Hess, a noted culinary historian and cook. "Amerian cookery is a tapestry of extraordinary complex design, reflecting out rich and varied ethnic origins, our New World produce, and our frontier history," writes Hess in her Introduction. For the historian, she documents early American cookery with prose and photographs of Washington's original manuscript and an appendix detailing extensive primary-source research. For the cook, she explains terms and techniques unfamiliar to the modern kitchen, showing how to make old fashioned recipes the traditional way, such as: rose petal vinegar, Oxford Kate's sausages, roast capon with oysters, mince pie, fried pudding, almond butter ginger bread, apple cider. In In paperback for the first time, Martha Washington's "Booke of Cookery" is both a significant primary resource for historians and the perfect gift for enthusiastic cooks and fans of the culinary arts.
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A selection of fifty tested recipes taken from medieval manuscripts and adapted, with imperial and metric measurements, for the modern cook.
This cookbook offers a selection of recipes drawn from medieval manuscripts which have been adapted for the modern cook. Illustrated with scenes from medieval life, the dishes reflect the food eaten by many branches of society. The book ends with a section on herbs and medicines. Color illustrations throughout [via]More editions of The Medieval Cookbook:

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Based on Mark Kurlansky's critically acclaimed bestseller Salt: A World History, this handsome picture book explores every aspect of salt: The many ways it's gathered from the earth and sea; how ancient emperors in China, Egypt, and Rome used it to keep their subjects happy; Why salt was key to the Age of Exploration; what salt meant to the American Revolution; And even how the search for salt eventually led to oil. Along the way, you'll meet a Celtic miner frozen in salt, learn how to make ketchup, and even experience salt's finest hour: Gandhi's famous Salt March.
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Elizabethian Feasts - recipes from the Good Housewives Handmaid, The English Hous-Wife, The Accomplished Ladies Delight, Epulario, The Italian Banquet [via]
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