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A history of cookbooks : from kitchen to page over seven centuries /

"A History of Cookbooks provides a literary and historical overview of the cookbook genre, exploring its development as an important part of food culture beginning in the Late Middle Ages. Studying cookbooks from various Western cultures and languages, Henry Notaker traces the transformation of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Notaker, Henry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Colección:California studies in food and culture ; 64.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.