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The Cookbook Library
Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook
By Willan, Anne & Claflin, Kyri
- ISBN
- 9780520244009
- Publisher
- Univ. of California
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2012 | Science and Technology
Willan (founder, La Varenne Cooking Sch.; The Country Cooking of France) here draws on her and her husband Cherniavsky's personal collection of antiquarian cookbooks—as well as Claflin's (coeditor, Writing Food History) research on the volumes—to discuss the history of cookbook writing and composition primarily from the 1500s through the early 19th century. She meticulously describes how writers arranged...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
